Aliyah Warren continues to try to combine how his “older sister” ended up in handles in a Boston court room to answer for a murder accusation.
The last time Warren saw Nora NelsonThe 24 -year -old woman, accused of killing a lawyer with whom she was leaving, was wearing a wig and dress. Warren found so strange.
And Nelson’s eyes, usually bright with ambition, looked like “dead” in Warren last summer while the couple sat one another in a Memphis restaurant.
“I am very confused,” said Warren, 22, of Memphis, Tennessee, in Masslive.
“I would never have thought, in my wildest imagination, that I could do something so horrible … I just don’t understand, and I’ve been trying to find out what happened,” said Warren.
Nora Nelson – or “Andi”, as Warren knew her growing, was charged with murder on February 6, in relation to the Death of Joseph Donohue65, by Charlestown.
Nelson appeared in court on March 14 with a group of green and rose Cardigan sweat, with his lawyer Ian Davis. Prosecutors sought another date for a probable cause, scheduled for April 10.
Nelson and Donohue had an “intimate couple relationship,” Davis said, and lived with Donohue at the time of his death.
Nora “Andi” Nelson, from Boston, appeared in the Boston Municipal Court on February 4, 2025, due to his disposition on Domestic Violence positions. Irene Rotondo
“Miss Nelson is very forceful [about] maintaining his innocence. She wants to present her defense as soon as possible, “Davis said outside the courtroom on Friday.
“This is a serious position and will go to a senior court; at that time there will be a much more complete presentation of this defense,” he said.
On the night of February 2, Donohue’s body was wrapped inside a canvas with a conduit in the courtyard of his home boat Charlestown. One of his dogs was also dead in the water next to the boat.
Nelson greeted police on the door on February 6, after family members were applying for Donohue’s welfare control when 48 hours could not be there.
Joseph Donohue, 65, of Charlestown, was identified as a victim of murder of an incident on a domestic ship on February 2, 2025.Donohue family
Nelson lied to his name and the whereabouts of Donohue and, at one point, asked an officer: “Can I say -something?” According to court documents.
The young woman was detained in custody at the scene for guarantees not related to domestic violence charges against another Boston man at the age of 60, with whom Nelson had dated and lived.
Ex-social told police that Nelson threatened his life in November 2023.
Nelson was accused with murder in relation to Donohue“The slaughter on February 6. In court, prosecutors said it was” evasive and unanswered, their statements were contradictory and, frankly, lied. “
As questions about Donohue’s death continue to stir, Nelson’s loved ones also seek answers about the determined woman they knew.
Who is Nora “Andi” Nelson?
Leave Memphis to travel around the world, and specifically, in Boston, spoke of Nelson when she and Warren grew.
The two met in 2016 when they took the same classes at the New Ballet Ensemble & School in Memphis. At that time, Nelson was 15 years old and presented himself as “Andi”. He told Warren, at the age of 13, that “Nora” was a middle name.
They became “inseparable” friends after Nelson, who was “very trained” in various dance styles, asked Warren to learn a routine with her in the studio.
Nora “Andi” Nelson (on the right) and her friend Aliyah Warren (left) as adolescents during the dance class in Tennessee.(Aliyah Warren)
“My mother was strict with the people we were hanging with, but when she came to Andi, she never had a bad thing to say about her,” said Warren.
He recalled how they could eat or spend time in the houses and said, “Once Andi got his car, we were everywhere.”
“If I told my mother Andi he wants to pick up, he would only let me go, because he knew he was with Andi and we were sure,” he said.
In high school, Nelson had many dance and school friends and was known as a kind, respectful and “friendly”, said Warren. Many of the friends of Nelson High School were Upper Classmen, he added, because Nelson was on a good way to graduate.
Warren said his best friend had an entrepreneurial mentality, with great dreams of moving away from Memphis. Nelson was interested in pursuing a career in the field of engineering, said Warren, and used to sell brownies in the school hallways only to “make a bony buck”.
She “brought himself rich” and wore “upper class” clothes: Gucci was Nelson’s favorite, Warren said. The rise always had its nails and made sure that the hair was in perfect braids or a sewn.
Nora “Andi” Nelson (left) and Aliyah Warren (right) as adolescents.(Aliyah Warren)
“I loved it when I let me pass through his closet when I no longer wanted to carry things because I did all the fantastic things … I like to call -” Bougie “, said Warren.
When he was a boyfriend, Warren said that Nelson always came out with “older boys” who were 20 and 30 years old, but he was not sure when Nelson began to go out with men over 40.
Over the high school years, Nelson became a large part of Warren’s family. Babysat often after school for Warren’s little sister and stayed for dinner after Warren’s mother arrived at home.
There were nights when Nelson and Warren’s mother sat on long conversations at the table, long after the food was left out.
“She supported my mother a lot for the serious things of life, everything that happened … I know her and my mother had good and deep conversations because she couldn’t have it with her mother,” Warren said.
Masslive could not reach Nelson’s mother to comment on this story.
Nora “Andi” Nelson (left) and Aliyah Warren with others on a sofa as adolescents.(Aliyah Warren)
Warren characterized some of Nelson’s family relationships as tense and distant. Nelson and his mother “simply did not click,” Warren said, and Nelson heard that he did not receive as much “maternal attention” as his older brothers.
While Warren said that Nelson often spoke to his father and always “looked like a friendly guy,” Warren said he was “not so good.” Nelson “worshiped” his older brother, said Warren, but communication for them was hard with his military enlistment.
When Nelson graduated from high school, he immediately began his goals of traveling around the world as an entrepreneur, and that was when he began to lose contact with the people back home.
What happened to Boston?
Nelson and Warren kept contact over the years, while Nelson traveled through the United States, even continued to dance in Maine for some time, but his calls became less when Nelson “started his adult life,” said Warren.
It is ultimately believed that Nelson moved to Boston at some point after the pandemic. He lived in the apartment of the aforementioned domestic assault victim since they showed the court documents.
Warren did not know what Nelson did to work in Boston or otherwise, and said that Nelson was called “businessman” and that he had “colleagues”.
Nora Nelson, 24, goes to the Boston Municipal Court in Charlestown on February 7, 2025, in connection with the death to stab Joseph Donohue, 65.(Libby O’Neill/Boston Herald)
According to Nelson’s defense lawyer during his demand, Nelson is a Harvard Technology inmate. His lawyers also said he used to work as a naval contractor and created missile technology in Fort Meade in Baltimore for four years.
Harvard spokesman told Masslive that the institution “has not been able to confirm that it has celebrated a practice.”
Donohue’s family issued a statement after being identified in February, but refused to comment further.
“Our family is puzzled by this unimaginable loss. Joe was a wonderful family member, a appreciated friend and a trusted colleague. Always generous and kind, he devoted his life and career to help others, “he read the statement.
“He is loved and he will miss himself deeply. We appreciate the love and support we have received, and ask for the privacy during this difficult time.”
When Masslive visited Charlestown Marina’s home ships, a man who said he was a Donohue friend said that he was a “fantastic type” who always shared his Red Sox tickets, but refused to comment further. He said he did not know Nelson.
The last time
It was a hot day in August 2024, the last time Nelson returned home to Tennessee.
Warren drove to Nelson to get some groceries and go out to eat. While the two caught -Warren couldn’t help but notice his best friend and brilliant, he was not herself.
“She was not my sister … It was difficult to sit there, her eyes were dead,” Warren said. Nelson also wore strange clothes, he said, and seemed to be “not there.”
“But Andi has never been that person, I would think he would only fall … He has never been the kind of person to ask for help when he happens for something,” Warren said.
Nora “Andi” Nelson (on the right) and her friend Aliyah Warren as teenagers.(Aliyah Warren)
Despite his appearance, Nelson never mentioned that there was anything bad that day and, in order not to do -the uncomfortable, Warren did not press him on how he felt.
When Warren left Nelson in his house in Tennessee, Nelson asked Warren to send “if you want to spend the time again”, which Warren did, but Nelson never did a text message.
“I just thought you may be in another streak of not talking to us; it was not recorded in my brain that something could be bad for reality,” Warren said.
But in the face of everything, Warren said he still loves his best friend.
“I still love him the same and everything … I will continue to love my sister because this is what she needs. She needs love,” Warren said.
“But at the same time, I have to let the system do its job and just ask them to give it a mental evaluation so that they can see that something goes wrong … I cannot sit here and say if it did, but in the way it was the last time we saw it, I know that something is wrong,” he said.