FALL RIVER — Nelson Coelho told a woman he’d recently met and shared crack cocaine with that he was involved in the deadly robbery that killed 54-year-old convenience store owner Lal Kishor Mahaseth during an attempted armed robbery and that it was an accident, prosecutors alleged.
And they said Coelho, 40, asked the woman if she would be his alibi as police searched for Mahaseth’s shooter.
Coelho is on trial for Mahaseth’s murder, which occurred inside Mahaseth's convenience store on Rock Street on Oct. 18, 2021. He is also charged with possession of an illegal firearm and armed robbery, which prosecutors say he committed at another convenience store on Durfee Street the night before Mahaseth was fatally shot with a bullet to his heart.
Coelho has been held on bail since his arrest a week after the murder.
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