BOSTON, Jan. 5, 2015—The man whose gunfire on a busy Boston street killed 23-year-old Dawnn Jaffier and injured a second woman last summer will remain held without bail on an indictment charging him with first-degree murder, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

KEITH WILLIAMS (D.O.B. 7/13/96) was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of first-degree murder for Jaffier’s homicide, armed assault with intent to murder for the non-fatal shooting, and unlawful possession of a firearm.  The Suffolk County Grand Jury returned the indictments on Nov. 19.

Assistant District Attorney Mark Lee, deputy chief of the DA’s Homicide Unit, requested that Williams continue to be held without bail as he has since his arraignment in Dorchester Municipal Court on Aug. 25.  Clerk Magistrate Gary Wilson granted the request.

Lee told the court that shortly after 8:00 a.m. on Aug. 23, Williams stood in the area of Blue Hill Avenue and McClellan Street – where crowds had gathered to watch the J’ouvert Parade portion of the Caribbean Festival – and fired numerous shots from a .357 caliber revolver down Blue Hill Avenue in the direction of Charlotte Street.

Jaffier, who was standing with friends on Blue Hill Avenue, was struck in the head and killed; a second victim was struck in the leg as she sat a few blocks away near the intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and American Legion Highway.

Williams fled on foot with two other men.  He was observed hiding the revolver in the yard of a home on Drummond Street and continued walking a short distance on Drummond Street before Boston Police stopped him and his companions based on witness descriptions, prosecutors said.

The firearm was recovered from the location Williams was seen hiding it.  Through ballistic testing it was found to be the same weapon used to fire the bullets that killed Jaffier and injured the second victim.

Timothy Munzert is the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate.  Williams was represented by John Galvin.  He will return to court March 3.

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