Man who aided killing of in-law dies

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Matthew Stuart, who helped his brother Charlescover up the shooting death of his pregnant wife in 1989 in akilling that inflamed racial tensions in Boston, has died,authorities said Sunday.

Carole DiMaiti Stuart was shot to death more than two decades agoand the child she delivered after she was shot died days later. Herhusband, Charles Stuart, blamed the crime on a black man,heightening racial strife in Boston. Police focused on a paroledconvict, William Bennett, as a suspect. He later sued the city afterbeing cleared.

Matthew Stuart admitted to police a few months after the shootingthat he helped hide the gun believed to have been …