BOSTON, April 15, 2014—A Dorchester man was arraigned today for the murder of 20-year-old Brousseau Normil during an armed robbery last year, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

ERIC BARNES (D.O.B. 6/10/85) was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court this morning on charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery in connection with Normil’s March 4, 2013, shooting death.  Assistant District Attorney Mark Lee, deputy chief of the DA’s Homicide Unit, requested that Barnes be held without bail.  Clerk Magistrate Gary Wilson granted the request.

KENNETH SALES (D.O.B. 4/25/90) of Roxbury and TYRONNE SEAMS (D.O.B. 3/6/86) are also charged with first-degree murder and armed robbery.  Sales, who is also charged with unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the case, is currently being held in Maine on unrelated charges, and Seams is held on unrelated charges in Rhode Island.  A fourth defendant, BRIANNA ERICKSON (D.O.B. 10/27/91) of Roxbury, has been held on high bail since her Roxbury District Court on a charge of armed robbery in connection with the case.  Each will face arraignment in Superior Court at later dates.

Lee told the court that Barnes and his co-defendants planned to rob the Cambridge man.  Erickson lured the Normil to a predetermined location, where the three men entered Normil’s rental car and drove away.  The men robbed robbed and shot Normil and drove the car to the area of 7 Langdon St. in Roxbury, where they abandoned it with Normil in the backseat.

Boston Police were called to the scene the following day after a witness discovered Normil’s body inside the vehicle, which the witness told police had been parked at the location all day on the previous day.

Among the evidence linking Barnes and his co-defendants to the scene are text messages and forensic evidence, prosecutors said.

Barnes is represented by attorney Michael Bourbeau.  He will return to court on May 15.

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