Former International Fugitive Admits to Stabbing JP Man to Death

A man who for the last 15 years had been on the run in Jamaica and several Central American nations pleaded guilty today in Boston to killing a JP man.

Patrick Anthony Brown, 37, admited to stabbing Zandera Sullivan at a Roxbury home in 1995, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Brown's trial was scheduled to start this morning. Instead, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed home invasion.

Brown, who also goes by Derrick Malloy, went to the home of his former girlfriend on May 29, 1995, according to the case the DA's office would have made. The girlfriend had broken up with Brown a few months before.

Brown knocked at her Seaver Street apartment and asked to be let in. She would not let him in and he went around to a back door and forced his way in to her bedroom, where he found her and Sullivan, the DA's office was prepared to argue. Brown pulled a knife from his waistband, and Sullivan ran out the backdoor.

Brown chased Sullivan, and the JP man was found moments later with his carotid artery and jugular vein cut. Sullivan died from his wounds.

Brown is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow. He faces a mandatory life term, according to the DA's office.

Prosecutors called the murder a "deadly act of dometic violence."

"Mr. Sullivan's murder is proof that domestic violence doesn't just hurt intimate partners," said Suffolk County DA Dan Conley in a statement. "It can claim people outside the abusive relationship as well. It's victims can be children, parents, and even strangers."

According to the JP Gazette, Sullivan's father had been slain just two weeks before he himself was murdered.

Brown was taken into custody in Belize on Feb. 9 of last year. The case had been highlighted on the television show America's Most Wanted.

[Editor's note: The initial posting incorrectly said Brown was in South American nations.]