Peabody double murder suspect now accused of carjacking man

BOSTON — The search continues for an “armed and dangerous” double murder suspect, who is also accused of carjacking a man at knifepoint.

Wes Doughty, 39, is suspected of killing a Peabody couple in a Farm Avenue basement.

For one night, the investigation focused on a Roxbury liquor store, where police and witnesses said Doughty stopped by to buy a drink during a carjacking and kidnapping late Wednesday.

“He walked in like a regular,” Ramon Geno, of Hollywood Liquors, said. “Waited in line. A couple of customers in front of him. He got in line, paid for his stuff and walked out. Didn’t say anything else to my employees. Everything else is fine.”

There was a different story two blocks away.

Surveillance video from the same time period shows Ken Metz, 64, desperately seeking help at a pizza shop after saying Doughty forced himself into his car about 20 miles away in Middleton.

“He did say he wasn’t going to hurt me after I was cooperating with him,” Metz said. “And I told him my wife’s situation, and that I had four kids and eight grandkids, and he said, ‘I can’t kill you.’”

Metz said Doughty kept him hostage in the back seat of the car for three hours and confessed during that time to the Peabody homicides.

“He said he killed them because they gave heroin to his godfather,” Metz said. “He said his godfather was really loopy and he didn’t want him to be addicted to heroin.”

Investigators said they believe Doughty may still be driving the grey 2006 Honda Accord with the license plate 7KLY80.

Anyone who spots Doughty or the car is asked to call 911 immediately.

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