Advertisement Report: Father of dead Boston boy commits suicide in front of police By Joseph Markman and Stephen H. Flynn, The Enterprise Share Shares Copy Link Copy

A Boston man killed himself Saturday as police arrived to question him about the death of his 6-year-old son, news partner The Enterprise reports.The boy, Destin Williams-Marcelin, was the child of an Easton woman and enrolled in school in Boston, where his father, Patrick Marcelin, 49, lived.Destin was found dead in the Dorchester apartment of his father’s girlfriend Thursday morning.The boy’s mother, 49-year-old Nancy Williams, was on her way to the second-floor Devon Street apartment to pick up Destin and bring him to his first day of school Thursday when police told her the boy had died, said Jim Jerome, Williams’ brother-in-law, who lives with her and other family members in Easton.According to the police report, about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Boston police and paramedics responded to 61 Devon St. for a report of a child in cardiac arrest. Destin was pronounced dead at the scene.Williams and Marcelin had never married, Jerome said.Williams has lived in Easton for 11 years and saw her son on the weekends.Jerome said his sister-in-law went to the medical examiner’s office Saturday to identify her son’s body.Williams told The Enterprise Saturday that she did not want to talk about her son’s death.Detectives began a search for Marcelin on Thursday after learning that his son had been staying with him.The search intensified Friday evening after detectives learned from a family member that Marcelin had said he planned to harm himself, according to the police report.Detectives found Marcelin at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday in an apartment at 815 Morton St. in Mattapan. They said he answered the door with a kitchen knife in his hand and began to stab himself.After a struggle, the detectives took the knife away. Marcelin was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead of his self-inflicted injuries.The boy's death remains under investigation by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Boston police, and Suffolk County prosecutors. Marcelin's death is also being investigated.Neither investigation is expected to result in charges, police said.