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Slaying suspect's family demands payback

By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer

BROCKTON — Amaral Montrond was free on bail when police arrested him in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend last month.

Now, Montrond's family, who posted the $50,000 bail, wants the money back now that he is charged with murder.

Montrond's lawyer, David Sorrenti, filed a motion in Brockton Superior Court asking a judge to return the money to the people who posted it. The issue is expected to be heard Sept. 13.

Montrond, 29, is being held without bail in the shooting death last month of his ex-girlfriend, Carlita “T.T.” Chaney, 27, at his parents' 24 Montauk Road home.

At the time of the killing, Montrond was free in lieu of $50,000 bail in connection with the shooting of three people near a downtown bar last year. In that case, a gunman opened fire on Centre Street on Labor Day weekend in 2006. At the time, about 30 people were walking to their vehicles along the street and in the parking garage about a half-hour after Joe Angelo's Cafe & Deli on Crescent Street closed following an event that drew hundreds.

A month after the downtown shooting, police tracked Montrond to Spartanburg, S.C., where Chaney, the mother of two of his children, was living, and arrested him.

Montrond, whose arrest record spans at least 10 years, was originally held in lieu of $1 million bail in the downtown shooting case but that amount was reduced earlier this year to $50,000. His family quickly posted the bail.

A prosecutor told a judge last month that Montrond blamed Chaney for tipping police to his whereabouts and called her a “snitch.”

Chaney was killed while visiting Brockton last month to pick up her two children. Her children had been visiting Montrond and his family. She was planning to leave the day after she was shot, relatives told police.

Chaney was found by police dead on a couch in the basement of the Montrond home, a gunshot wound near her left temple.

A semi-automatic Ruger pistol, recovered at the house, is believed to be the murder weapon.

The two children have since told Chaney's relatives that they saw their mother dead shortly after the shooting.

Maureen Boyle can be reached at mboyle@enterprisenews.com.