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Arrest warrants issued in Bourneside slayings
By Suzanne Smalley and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff
Boston Police today obtained arrest warrants for two teenagers wanted in connection with the December shooting deaths of four young men in a Dorchester basement, according to court papers.
The crime, the city's deadliest in a decade, shocked Boston and capped a year when the homicide count climbed to a 10-year high of 75.
The warrants, filed in Dorchester District Court, allege that Calvin L. Carnes Jr., 19, shot the four youths and say he has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
The warrants say Robert B. Turner, 19, of Dorchester, has been charged with four counts of being an accessory after the fact to the slayings.
Police and the Suffolk District Attorney's office scheduled a news conference for 6:15 p.m. to announce that Turner is in custody and to seek the public's help locating Carnes.
The teens, who were the subjects of an exhaustive special grand jury probe that began in March, have been the focus of significant police interest since soon after the Dec. 13 slayings on Bourneside Street, two law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the investigation have said. Carnes knew at least one of the victims socially, the officials have said.
Jason Bachiller, 21, Jihad Chankhour, 22, Edwin "E.J." Duncan, 21, and Christopher Vieira, 19, were slain in the basement recording studio used by their rap group.
In February, Carnes and Turner were arrested on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester on trespassing charges after gang unit officers and a State Police K-9 officer sought Turner on an outstanding arrest warrant, according to court records. The men fled from police, who later found them hiding behind water heaters in a neighbor's basement. The arrest report from that incident indicates that the men were taken to the Boston Police homicide unit for interviews and fingerprinting.
