A 42-year-old man from Massachusetts, who spent over 15 years incarcerated for the murder of his pregnant fiancee, is once again imprisoned, now accused of killing 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.

The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office prosecutors outlined the alleged sequence of events and highlighted Hurst’s criminal history during a court hearing on Friday, as reported by local NBC affiliate WBTS. Responding to a call on July 6 regarding a death investigation near 56 Patten Street, Boston police discovered Gomes’ body hidden under a bed. His face showed “significant and multiple fractures” along with other head injuries, according to prosecutors.

Earlier that day, Hurst is accused of escaping from a traffic stop in Gomes’ SUV after officers approached it for being parked illegally. He reportedly confessed to having a physical altercation with his roommate.

Hurst made his initial appearance from a hospital bed, with his attorney expressing concerns about his “ability to appreciate” the charges due to an unspecified “medical condition.”

Hurst had been released from prison in 2023, after completing a sentence of roughly 15 years for the 2007 killing of his pregnant fiancee, Katherine MacDougall. Initially charged with murder after she was found strangled in their Worcester home in March 2007, Hurst eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the following year at the urging of the victim’s family for leniency.

At the time, according to the local Worcester Telegram & Gazette, MacDougall’s family noted that Hurst was under some “very powerful drugs” when he killed MacDougall. The victim’s brother read a statement to the court, per the Telegram & Gazette:

In the course of trying to make sense of all of this, from blaming ourselves to anger with Taylor, to a sense of hopelessness that things would never be OK again, we have had to ask ourselves some difficult and important questions. The biggest of these were about love, about Katie’s love for Taylor and about Taylor’s love for Katie. In exploring the depths of these issues, we have come to an amazing conclusion … Yes, what Taylor did was horrible and inexcusable. But was it unforgivable? We all know what it means to need forgiveness and have chosen not to withhold such from anyone. God implores us to forgive as we have been forgiven. So, in questioning whether or not Taylor could love Katie and still do something so horrible, we believe that he could, and did, and still does.

In the end, the judge honored the family’s request and allowed Hurst to plead guilty to manslaughter. He was sentenced to 18 to 20 years behind bars.

Prosecutors said Hurst was also on probation for animal cruelty for kicking a puppy while he was incarcerated in 2023, Boston.com reported.

A probable cause hearing is scheduled for Sept. 17, per WBTS.