Arrest made in July slaying of teen on Cape Cod

By Globe Staff

A man has been charged with the July slaying of a North Carolina teenager in Hyannis who had come to Cape Cod to work for the summer.

Anthony A. Russ, 19, will be arraigned today in Barnstable District Court on a murder charge for the shooting death of Jacques Sellers, 18. Police and prosecutors did not release any details about Russ's arrest, but they have scheduled a press conference.

On July 18, Sellers was sitting in the living room on General Patton Drive when bullets ripped through the shingles of the classic Cape Cod house where he had been living. Sellers was sitting with his back to the street and was shot several times. He was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

At the time, Seller’s uncle, Phillip L. Spencer, said that his nephew was not the intended victim.

"I don't think anyone was after him," Spencer told the Globe after the shooting. "I think it must have been something else that was going on in that house. They were after somebody else."

In July, Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said investigators were trying to determine whether the bullets were meant for Sellers.

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