Boston Police Find Dead Body At Home Owned By Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley's Husband

Mark Tanos Updated Sun, July 19, 2026 at 11:47 AM EDT

Boston Police Find Dead Body At Home Owned By Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley's Husband ©(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)


Boston homicide detectives are investigating a death at a Mattapan rental property that city records tie to the husband of Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley.

Officers reached 25 Malta St. at 1:52 p.m. after a caller asked police to check on a person there, department spokesperson James Moccia told CBS News Boston. They found the individual dead, Moccia said, adding that he had nothing further to share and that the homicide unit had taken the case.

A second department spokesperson, Sgt. Det. John Boyle, characterized the matter to The Boston Globe as a death investigation. Police have not named the deceased or disclosed a cause of death, and few specifics had surfaced by Saturday evening, the Globe reported. (RELATED: Ayanna Pressley Screams At Top Of Her Lungs As Somali Fraud Hearing Descends Into Mayhem)

Red crime scene tape ringed the property and a cruiser idled out front that evening, CBS News Boston reported. An officer stood watch at the front door, and officers on scene would not say whether anyone had been staying there, according to Mass Daily News.

City property records name Conan Harris, Pressley's husband, as the owner, CBS News Boston reported. The house dates to 1910 and carries a municipal assessment above $919,000. Harris paid $340,000 for it in 2021 and later listed it at $1.15 million, Mass Daily News reported. Neither Pressley nor Harris lives there.

The Malta Street address delivered the couple as much as $100,000 in rent during 2025, federal financial disclosures show, according to Mass Daily News. Those filings list four Massachusetts rental properties that together brought in roughly $350,000 last year, the outlet reported.

"The Congresswoman extends her deepest condolences to the impacted family," a Pressley spokesperson said Saturday night in a statement to CBS News Boston. Her office told the Globe the house operates as a rental.

Chantae Turner, the listing agent the couple hired, said the tenants had lived there "for a while," Mass Daily News reported, citing her comments to the Globe.

A neighbor who gave her first name as Cherill told the Globe that police hit the same address in a raid roughly two months back, not long before the couple listed it. Every floor housed tenants then, some of them teenagers still in high school, she said. Boston police have not confirmed that raid or addressed whether the two episodes connect.

Pressley belongs to the bloc of progressive House Democrats known as the Squad. She captured her seat in 2018 by unseating longtime Rep. Michael Capuano in a primary, CBS News Boston reported.

Harris spent Saturday morning across town, speaking for his wife at a Roxbury library renaming honoring Sarah-Ann Shaw, the first Black woman to report for Boston television, the Globe reported.

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