BOSTON, May 14, 2018— The Dorchester man charged in the shooting deaths of 23-year-old Christopher Joyce and 58-year-old Clayborn Blair was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

WILVIN GUITY, 28, of Dorchester was arraigned today in Roxbury Municipal Court on two counts of murder and a single count of unlawful possession of a firearm. At the request of Assistant District Attorney John Verner, Judge David Weingarten ordered Guity held without bail.

Boston Police responded to the area of 277 Centre Street at approximately 9:45 p.m. on May 4, where they located Joyce and Blair suffering from gunshot wounds. 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, exit the rear 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 approximately 15 people in a Centre Street park, prosecutors said. He then ran back in the direction of Chestnut Street, re-entered the white sedan, 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.

The investigation into the fatal shootings remains ongoing.

Katherine Moran, director of the DA’s Victim Witness Assistance Program, is the assigned victim-witness advocate. Guity is represented by William White. He returns to court June 13.

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