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Masslive: As Springfield police worked to solve a drug-related killing last month, a Ludlow teenager offered his support.

“I’ll put my own life on the line to solve this murder case,” Matthew Hastings, 17, wrote on Facebook two days after the fatal shooting of Jeffrey Freitas, 20, also of Ludlow.

After expressing sympathy for the victim’s family, he asked Freitas for guidance in finding the “the dirtbags” who killed him.

“Rock the heavens man and watch over all of us as we solve this case with the Springfield Police Department and get the justice you and your family deserve,” he wrote in the March 28 Facebook post.

Two weeks later, Hastings was charged in the case he seemed so eager to solve. Amid tight security in Springfield District Court on Thursday, he pleaded not guilty to murder by joint venture, conspiracy and a drug-related charge and was held without right to bail.

The arraignment came two weeks after another teenager, Charles Sierra, 16, of Springfield, was charged with murder for allegedly shooting Freitas in his car during an attempted drug robbery on March 26. Both defendants are being tried as adults and face the possibility of life without parole if convicted. An arrest warrant has been issued for a third suspect.

In a statement to police, Sierra acknowledged being present during the shooting, but denied firing the fatal shot, according to court documents. He said an accomplice pulled a handgun from his waistband and shot Freitas on Sheldon Street in the North End. The robbery was suggested by Hastings, who claimed he knew a “drug dealer they could rob” and provided Freitas’s phone number, Sierra told police. Both Sierra and Hastings attend the alternative Mill Pond School in Springfield.

Questioned by police on March 29, Hastings acknowledged using Facebook to arrange the drug deal, but denied setting Freitas up for a robbery.

HAHAHHAHAHHAHA. What a freaking idiot. This is like OJ Simpson saying he was gonna find the “real killer” when everyone knew it was him. Except OJ had already been found not guilty in a court of law so he had nothing to lose. Nothing says “I’m guilty” more than vowing to find the real killers.

I mean, seriously, how stupid is this kid? The best part was when he wrote, “when we solve this case with the Springfield Police Department.” Because apparently he doesn’t understand that when the police interrogated him it meant that he was a suspect, not a junior deputy detective.

And it still boggles my mind how people don’t understand that Facebook is not their diary. If you’re going to plot to murder someone, don’t do it on Facebook. Just your Turtleboy pro tip of the day right there. At least make it a little more challenging for them to arrest your ass.

This kid is really thug life too:

From the mean streets of Ludlow!! LOL. This is what happening when attempting to keep it real goes wrong. Here you have some kid from the suburbs, who wants to establish that he’s the bad kid in town, gets kicked out of the Ludlow Schools and ends up at an alternative school in Springfield. And these alternative schools sound good on paper, but all you’re doing is taking the worst of the worst and tossing them in together. So some shitbag kid from Ludlow meets a bunch of drug dealers from Springfield, feels good about himself because he’s accepted by people from the projects, and the next thing you know he’s setting up other drug dealers to get robbed.

That’s how this face

Turns into this face

The bottom line is that you shouldn’t murder people, but if you do, you should probably stay off Facebook for a few days and keep a low profile. Just sayin.

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