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Prosecutor lays out evidence in Bourneside killings
By Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff
A Suffolk prosecutor said this morning that substantial physical evidence links two 19-year-olds to the execution-style shootings of four youths in a Dorchester basement in December, Boston's bloodiest crime in a decade.
Assistant District Attorney David Meier said a fingerprint belonging to Calvin L. Carnes Jr. of Dorchester, the alleged triggerman, was found in the car of one of the victims, which he is charged with stealing. There was also blood from one of the victims found in the driver's seat of the car, Meier said.
The prosecutor said investigators found numerous cellphone calls placed on Bourneside Street, where the shootings happened, by Carnes and by Robert B. Turner of Boston, who is charged as an accessory to the slayings.
At his arraignment this morning, Carnes was ordered held without bail on four murder charges and other counts. Turner was given $1 million cash bail on charges of being an accessory after the fact to murder, but was ordered held without bail for violating probation on unrelated charges.
While Meier did not declare a motive for the slayings, the two men are also charged in connection with the theft of a handgun, a rifle, and a shotgun from the basement. Jason Bachiller, 21; Edwin "E.J." Duncan, 21; and Christopher Vieira, 19, were slain in the makeshift recording studio used by their rap group. Jihad Chankhour, 22, a friend, was visiting the basement studio.
Meier, who led the grand jury investigation into the killings, said the youths kept the cache of guns in the basement to protect themselves and to impress others in the music business.
The prosecutor said that Carnes and Turner allegedly tried to sell the guns, as well as trying to fabricate alibis.
