A 42-year-old Massachusetts man who spent more than 15 years in prison for killing his pregnant fiancee finds himself behind bars again, this time for allegedly murdering his roommate.

Taylor Hurst is accused of beating 52-year-old Stephen Gomes to death in July in Boston. Police arrested Hurst on Thursday on a murder charge.

Prosecutors with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office described the alleged course of events — as well as Hurst's criminal past — during a court hearing Friday, local NBC affiliate WBTS reported. After responding to calls for a death investigation on July 6 in the area of 56 Patten Street, Boston police found Gomes' body under a bed, and his face had "significant and multiple fractures" along with other head trauma, prosecutors said.

Earlier that day, Hurs

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