had stolen from

her.    The fight spilled outside to the front yard.   Brown got

out of the minivan and attempted to tear off a door from a

vehicle parked in the driveway.    Now outnumbered, the victim ran

inside the house.    The defendant tried to re-enter the house and

tossed a brick through one of the windows.

       The defendant and Brown got back into the minivan and Forde

drove a short distance down the street, then stopped the vehicle

because the defendant had remembered that he had left some "IDs"

behind in a shoebox.    Forde, the defendant, and Brown walked
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back to the house.   The victim was outside and ran back into the

house when he saw the three approaching.

    Forde drove back to Boston.    Along the way, he dropped off

the unnamed woman in Milton.   Forde stopped at the house in the

Mattapan section of Boston where the defendant was staying at

that time, and the defendant was able to find his keys to Ojo's

house.   Forde, the defendant,