BOSTON, June 26, 2018— A Dorchester man has been indicted for firing into a crowd last month, killing 23-year-old Christopher Joyce and 58-year-old Clayborn Blair and injuring a 4-year-old child, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

A Suffolk County grand jury today returned indictments charging WILVIN GUITY-BECKELS, 28, with two counts of first-degree murder and single counts of armed assault with intent to murder and unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the May 4 shooting in the area of 277 Centre Street.

“This act of senseless violence claimed a young man with his life ahead of him and a grandfather with everything to live for,” Conley said. “It could very easily have killed an utterly innocent child. There is no excuse, no possible reason, for conduct like this or the availability of firearms that make it possible.”

Guity-Beckels has remained held without bail since his arraignment on two counts of murder in Roxbury Municipal Court on May 14, two days after his arrest by Boston Police. A Superior Court arraignment date has not yet been scheduled.

According to prosecutors, Guity-Beckels was seated in the rear passenger’s seat of a vehicle that arrived in the area of Chestnut Avenue shortly before 9:45 p.m. on May 4. He exited the vehicle and walked into the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments complex, where he opened fire on a group of people standing in an outdoor park.

Joyce and Blair, who were among approximately 15 people standing in the park, were fatally struck in the spray of gunfire. Boston Police homicide detectives and Suffolk prosecutors later received information that a bullet had also grazed a 4-year-old boy; he was not seriously injured and received treatment for a graze wound to his ear at an area health center.

Among the evidence collected during the course of an investigation into the shooting was footage from more than a dozen surveillance cameras captured the assailant’s movements before, during, and after the shooting. The footage depicts the shooter wearing distinctively patterned sneakers, which were later recovered during the execution of a search warrant at Guity-Beckels’ home, prosecutors said.

Assistant District Attorney John Verner of the DA’s Homicide Unit led the grand jury investigation resulting in today’s indictments. Katherine Moran, chief of Conley’s Victim Witness Assistance Program, is the assigned victim witness advocate. Arraignment in Superior Court will occur at a later date.

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