Jamaica Plain Shooting Caught On Video, Accused Held Without Bail

JAMAICA PLAIN, MA — The man accused of shooting and killing Clayborn Blair and Christopher Joyce in Jamaica Plain near the Jackson Square T stop was ordered held without bail during his arraignment in Roxbury Monday morning.

"I'm certain our city is a safer place with Wilvin Guity behind bars," Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said in a statement earlier.

Wilvin Guity, 28, of Dorchester was charged on two counts of murder and carrying a gun without a licence.

Relatives of the two men he is accused of killing were present during the arraignment. Guity was allowed to stay hidden, according to reports.

Boston Police responded to the area of 277 Centre Street

At approximately 9:45 p.m. on May 4, police found Joyce and Blair suffering from gunshot wounds at the the court yard at the Mildred C Hailey apartment complex (formerly known as the Bromley Apartments). Both men were transported to area hospitals and died of their injuries.

Minutes before the shooting, surveillance cameras captured a white Ford Fusion arrive in the area of Chestnut Avenue and a man wearing a gray hoodie and distinctively patterned sneakers, later identified as Guity, got out of the back passenger’s side door. Guity was then captured on camera as he walked into the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments and opened fire on a group of about 15 people in a Centre Street park, prosecutors said with "no particular target," according to Sera Congi, who was in court today.

He then can be seen running back in the direction of Chestnut Street, re-entered the white car, and left the area.

Ten different cameras captured the vehicle as it traveled to the Orchard Gardens housing development; five additional cameras captured Guity exit the vehicle on Degautier Way and enter a nearby liquor store. He was no longer wearing the gray hoodie but was still wearing the same patterned sneakers.

Based on information gathered during the course of their investigation, Boston Police homicide detectives executed a search warrant of Guity’s home that resulted in the recovery of the same distinctive sneakers worn during the shooting, prosecutors said.

Guity is expected to return to court May 22 and then again June 13, the latter for probable cause related to this case.

Previously on Patch:

JP Shooting Victims Were Innocent Bystanders Of Gang Violence

Boston Police: Arrest In Murder Of Salem State University

Fatal Jamaica Plain Violence: Shooting Leaves 2 Dead

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