BOSTON, Oct. 2, 2015—More than four years after 28-year-old Terrance Johnson was shot to death in Dorchester, the Suffolk County Grand Jury has indicted his alleged killer for first-degree murder, District Attorney Daniel F. Conley and Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans announced.

The indictment, returned yesterday, charges JOAO F. VICENTE (D.O.B. 8/15/89) with shooting Johnson in the back of the head near the corner of Humphreys Street and Humphreys Place just after 8:10 p.m. on the night of May 31, 2011, killing him. Vicente allegedly fled the scene on foot, then travelled almost immediately to Springfield, Massachusetts.

Since that time, Boston Police homicide detectives and Suffolk County prosecutors have been carefully and methodically gathering eyewitness statements, fingerprints, ballistics, and other evidence in the case, which led this week to sufficient grounds to charge Vicente.

Johnson’s homicide is the eighth Boston homicide from a previous year to be solved in 2015, Evans and Conley said. Suspects in the homicides of Lena Bruce, William Davis, Sean Dwyer, Ryan Morrissey, Maria Sanchez, Pippin Roe, Julian Printemps, and Ahmir Lee were all charged this year.

Vicente is currently serving an unrelated sentence at the Norfolk County House of Correction. His arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court is tentatively expected on Oct. 6.

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