On the morning of December 19, 2018, Everett Police responded to a report of a shooting on Central Avenue and found 50-year-old Ersilia Cataldo Matarazzo inside her car in the driveway of her parents’ home with multiple gunshot wounds to the torso. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators identified Ersilia’s estranged husband, 55-year-old Emilio Matarazzo of Peabody, as the primary suspect. Family members had described a long history of verbal abuse and more recent physical violence; Ersilia had filed for divorce the month before and moved into her parents’ home. A witness reported hearing gunshots on the morning of December 19 and saw a man later identified as Emilio approach Ersilia’s car with a long gun and fire into the vehicle. Emilio walked into the police station after the shooting and was arrested. A search warrant at a Foster Street property owned by him produced a Beretta 12 gauge shotgun hidden in the basement that matched the serial number of a shotgun missing from his home safe.

What details might people who knew Ersilia or the family be able to add about her final days or the events at St. Anthony’s the night before?