BOSTON -- A 60-year-old Atlanta man was arrested and charged with the 1984 murder of a Roxbury teen.
Sultan Omar Chezulu was arrested Tuesday morning by the local authorities for failure to register as a sex offender.
Chezulu is charged with the 1984 homicide of Elsie "Yolanda" Hernandez, who was 18 at the time of the murder.
Hernandez was found on Ball Street in Roxbury on December 29, 1984.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled her cause of death to be blunt force trauma and ligature strangulation.
"Yolanda's family deserved to see this fugitive brought to justice, no matter how long ago the crime was perpetrated. The tireless work of our detectives and the DA's Office serves as a prime example that no crime should go unpunished," Mayor Thomas Menino said.
The Unsolved Case Squad took evidence from the 1984 crime scene and submitted it into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). A hit was confirmed to be Chezulu, also known as Robert L. Scott. Scott was convicted of robbery and assault and battery with a deadly weapon in 1990 and was ordered to give DNA sample upon release in 2004.
Robert L. Scott changed his name to Sultan O. Chezulu and had been living in Georgia. He is expected to be returned to Boston tomorrow where he will face a murder charge.
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