News on the Graveside murder
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There were a couple stories about the December shooting today. This first one's from the AP.
BOSTON (AP) — A man charged as an accomplice in the murders of four young men in one of Boston’s bloodiest crimes in a decade told police his lifelong friend was the shooter, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Calvin Carnes Jr., 19, pleaded not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder during his arraignment Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court as more than 30 friends and relatives of the victims listened.
But prosecutors say they have physical evidence, including blood and fingerprints, and the statement by Carnes’ friend that point to Carnes as the triggerman in the bloodbath Dec. 13 in the basement of a home where four friends, all Wakefield High School graduates, had gathered to listen to music.
Assistant District Attorney David Meier said the carnage began when Carnes allegedly grabbed a handgun being shown off by one of the victims, Christopher Vieira, 19.
“Carnes then intentionally and in cold blood essentially executed each of those four young men,” Meier said.
This one's from the Boston Herald.
The young man charged with slaughtering a Dorchester rap group learned yesterday that his lifelong friend has fingered him as the killer, claiming he was relieving himself when Calvin Carnes Jr. turned executioner.
Robert Turner, 19, was “going to the bathroom” outside when he heard the 15 gunshots that wiped out three members of Graveside and their friend in a basement recording studio days before Christmas, prosecutor David Meier said during Carnes’ arraignment on four grand jury indictments of first-degree murder.
Turner, arraigned as an accessory for having helped cover up the infamous crime, “provided a tape-recorded statement to homicide detectives” upon his arrest in May on which he not only admits to being “at the scene” of the mass murder, but “directly, specifically and unequivocally implicates (Carnes) as the individual who fired the fatal shots,” Meier told Clerk Magistrate Gary Wilson.
Meier also disclosed for the first time that police have recovered the murder weapon - a 9 mm semiautomatic Glock that tragically belonged to one of the victims, and which has been matched with ballistics to the bloodbath. However, Meier did not say whether Carnes’ fingerprints were on it.
Scholars, Spike Lee discuss Katrina on Martha's Vineyard
EDGARTOWN, Mass. --Prominent black scholars at a screening of Spike Lee's new documentary on Hurricane Katrina called Wednesday for a national discussion of the inequality and poverty exposed by the storm that devastated New Orleans and nearby areas one year ago.
"What Hurricane Katrina did was sweep into our consciousness those people we have tried to force into oblivion," said University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Eric Dyson, one of four panel members at a forum on the resort island of Martha's Vineyard.
Harvard law professor Lani Guinier said society needs to connect rather than move away from its poor and underprivileged.
"When are we going to link our fate to the fate of the people who were dispossesed in New Orleans?"
They viewed the third episode of Lee's four-hour Katrina documentary, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," which first aired this week on HBO after a premiere in New Orleans last month. The film will be shown in its entirety on HBO on Aug. 29.
Menino has brush with gun violence
Mayor Thomas M. Menino came within feet of an armed thug and heard cops yell the chilling words “He’s got a gun!” during a walking tour of Dorchester Monday evening, learning firsthand the fright many of his constituents suffer in a city plagued daily by gunplay.
“I saw this guy running past me in a black shirt. All the sudden, the police who were with me were running and chasing this individual,” Menino said yesterday.
“This guy was brazen as hell,” a calm and cool Menino told the Herald. “I don’t know that this individual knew that the mayor was in the area, that there would be so many cops chasing him, but how brazen can you be?”
Polls show Dem rivals lead Reilly: Gabrieli, Patrick top AG
Chris Gabrieli’s pricey TV ads are apparently paying off as the millionaire philanthropist moves up in the gubernatorial polls while Attorney General Tom Reilly continues to lag in the tightening Democratic primary race.
Gabrieli is in command of the race in a new Suffolk University/WHDH-TV (Ch. 7) poll, topping the field with 32 percent support. Former U.S. attorney Deval Patrick was second with 24 percent, followed by Reilly with 20 percent. Some 24 percent of the 600 registered voters polled were undecided.
Which of the Dems do like the most? Or hate the least? Or are you undecided? Vote here!
http://snappoll.com/poll/125135.php
(Sources: Wakefield Daily Item, Boston Herald, Boston Globe)
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