Boston man pleads guilty in 2018 shooting death of food delivery driver

BOSTON, March 15, 2022— A Boston man pleaded guilty today on three counts related to the October 2018 murder of Raymond Holloway-Creighton, a food delivery driver and new father, District Attorney Kevin Hayden said.

TYLER SALES, 26, pleaded guilty to charges of voluntary manslaughter, possession of a firearm and armed assault with an intent to rob. Judge Robert Ullman agreed to the Commonwealth's recommendation, sentencing Sales to a minimum of 23 years and a maximum of 25 years in state prison on counts one and three, as well as three years of probation on count two. He is to have no contact with the victim's family after his release. Sales will serve his sentence after his current period of incarceration in state prison, resulting from violating probation, which is expected to end September 2023.

On October 4, 2018, and into the early hours of October 5, Sales and his co-defendants drove around Boston on motorized scooters, looking for scooters to steal. That morning, Holloway-Creighton had been delivering food on his scooter for Doordash and Grubhub. At approximately 3:30 AM on October 5, Sales pulled up behind the victim at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Chesterton Street. He shot Holloway-Creighton once in the back, fatally wounding him.

“The cold-bloodedness of this crime is shocking.  The victim, a hard worker and new father, was trying to provide for his family and his life was cut short simply out of desire to steal his scooter,” Hayden said.

The victim's family gave statements before Judge Ullman's sentence.

"Your honor, I would like the defendant to know that that night, there were several options to leave my husband alone, yet he did it," said Holloway-Creighton’s wife, Sharyenis Holloway-Creighton. "They followed him, and he decided to pull the trigger and finish his life. It was his choice."

"He was 26 years old, trying to do the right thing," said Cynthia Creighton, his mother. "He was married, he had his first child, he was working. He had no record, clean as a slate. The boy was a good boy, and I'm not gonna say [that] because it's my baby. I can say it proudly that my children were raised right. He was making a living honestly. And you took that from me. You robbed me."

Sales’ co-defendants, Tyrone Holley Hendren and Daniqua Adedontum, are scheduled to go on trial April 6.  Hendren is charged with first-degree murder and Adedontum is charged with assault with intent to rob.

         James Borghesani, Chief of Communications

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