BOSTON, March 29, 2016—A Dorchester man was arraigned today on firearm and other charges for his role amid the ongoing investigation into the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Jephthe Chery outside a Fenway bar on Thanksgiving morning, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

DOMINIQUE CARPENTER-GRADY (D.O.B. 7/3/89) was arraigned today in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm as a second offense, unlawful possession of ammunition, carrying a loaded firearm, discharging a firearm within 500-feet of a building, and three counts of attempted assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.  At the request of Assistant District Attorney John Pappas, Clerk Magistrate Lisa Medeiros set bail at $250,000.  According to prosecutors, Carpenter-Grady was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm in 2012.

Pappas told the court that Carpenter-Grady was one of two individuals involved in the exchange of gunfire outside Who’s On First as clubgoers spilled onto Yawkey Way shortly before 2:00 a.m. on Nov. 26.  Security cameras captured Carpenter-Grady and the second individual encounter one another on the crowded sidewalk; each produced a firearm within moments of their meeting and opened fire.  Chery was struck, mortally wounded, and pronounced dead at the scene.

“Mr. Chery was not involved in the exchange of gunfire or any conflict that may have preceded it,” Conley said. “The evidence to date has established that he was an innocent bystander.”

Carpenter-Grady and two other men were also shot and suffered non-life threatening injuries.

Carpenter-Grady allegedly discarded a .22 caliber semi-automatic under a car parked on Yawkey Way and was captured on camera as he fled on foot.  That firearm was later recovered by Boston Police, as well as shell casings from the area Carpenter-Grady was seen allegedly firing his weapon, Pappas said.

An examination of the shell casings determined that they were consistent with having been fired from the weapon the defendant allegedly discarded.

Carpenter-Grady was arrested by Boston Police on Dec. 2.  Police located him hiding under insulation in an attic crawl space at his Dorchester home.

The investigation into the shooting remains active.  Anyone with information is asked to contact the Boston Police Homicide Unit at 617-343-4470.

Katherine Moran, chief of the DA’s Victim Witness Assistance Program, is the assigned victim-witness advocate.  Carpenter-Grady is represented by Robert Griffin.  He returns to court April 26.

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All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.