Seven funeral attendees charged with beating a Hyde Park man to death this summer were held on half a million dollars’ cash bail and their five co-defendants charged with beating three surviving victims were ordered held on lower bails at their arraignments in Suffolk Superior Court today, District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

The 12 defendants are charged with attacking four victims near the 33 Restaurant and Lounge on Stanhope Street in the early morning hours of Aug. 21. One of those victims, Jose Alicea of Hyde Park, was beaten so badly that he died of his injuries at Massachusetts General Hospital two days later; the remaining three survived their injuries.

Arraigned on charges of second-degree murder and held on $500,000 cash bail each were:

1. JASON BENALFEW (D.O.B. 11/13/82), a.k.a. “JD,” of Lynn, represented by attorney Eric Jarosz;

2. JUSTIN COOKE (D.O.B. 1/17/84), a.k.a. “GD,” of Lynn, represented by attorney Gary Zerola;

3. JONATHAN FERNANDEZ (D.O.B. 12/24/85) of Lynn, represented by attorney James Budreau;

4. JOHAN GARCIA (D.O.B. 11/24/80) of Lynn, represented by attorney Timothy Bradl;

5. RUSKYN GARCIA (D.O.B. 5/21/84) of Lynn, represented by attorney Mark Meehan;

6. ANTHONY VILLALOBOS (D.O.B. 12/29/87), a.k.a. “Pretty Ricky,” of Revere, represented by attorney Francisco Napolitano; and

7. MICHAEL WELCH (D.O.B. 5/17/82) of Lynn, represented by attorney Russell Sobelman.

Those seven defendants were additionally arraigned on three separate counts of assault and battery and two separate counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon – a shod foot – for nonfatal injuries inflicted upon three of Alicea’s friends.

Also arraigned today were five defendants who are not charged with Alicea’s homicide but who are charged with kicking and/or beating two of the surviving victims:

8. RAMONA BERROA (D.O.B. 5/3/81), a.k.a. “Munchie,” of Lynn, represented by attorney Hodges Brown, Jr.;

9. JOSE CASTRO (D.O.B. 8/19/87), a.k.a. “Bernie,” of Lynn, represented by attorney Michael Doolin;

10. JORGE ENCARNACION (D.O.B. 8/9/83) of Lynn, represented by attorney Martin Leppo;

11. MIGUEL FLAQUER (D.O.B. 11/1/83), a.k.a. “Chino,” of Malden, represented by attorney Benjamin Brooks; and

12. RAMON GONZALES LLAVONA (D.O.B. 8/6/71), a.k.a. FRANK MARTINEZ, a.k.a. “Mac,” of Lynn, represented by attorney Bradford Keene.

Of those five, all but Llavona were held on $50,000 cash bail. Llavona, who gave police an alias at the time of his arrest and had a pending Essex County drug case, was held on $75,000.

“On Aug. 21, 2009, shortly after 2:00 a.m., a large group of men dressed predominately in black and red tuxedoes chased and beat to death a 22-year-old man named Jose ‘Danny’ Alicea,” Assistant District Attorney Cory Flashner told Clerk Magistrate Gary D. Wilson.

Calling the incident “a shocking and vicious gang assault,” Flashner said the suspects were part of a larger group of 20 to 30 men and women that had attended the funeral of a friend in Lynn earlier on Aug. 20 before heading into Boston in a pair of white limousines. They ended up at the 33 Restaurant and Lounge on Stanhope Street.

“Unfortunately, Jose ‘Danny’ Alicea made the decision to go to the same club with his friends,” Flashner said. Flashner told the court that the two groups were unknown to one another until they crossed paths that night and early morning, and said there had been no trouble inside the club.

At about 2:00, the prosecutor said, the bar began to close and patrons were leaving. Outside, the suspects and victims engaged in some sort of exchange that was captured on surveillance video.

“What was said is unclear,” Flashner said, “but this was clearly not a friendly conversation.”

In the moments that followed, several individuals charged toward Alicea and his friends, who began to run away. One or more of the assailants threw bottles at them before “swarming them” and inflicting “massive and severe injuries.” One of Alicea’s friends tried to get away but was chased and attacked by a second group of assailants.

The assailants made their way back to the limousines, but were prevented from leaving by responding Boston Police. A total of 25 people were detained at the scene; after identification procedures were undertaken, 13 were released and 12 were taken into custody on charges of aggravated assault and battery.

Alicea was transported to the hospital and died of his injuries on Aug. 24. In the weeks that followed, evidence presented to the Suffolk County Grand Jury indicated that seven of the assailants took part in the beating that claimed his life and injured his friends, while five took part in the beatings of two surviving victims.

All 12 face trial in Suffolk Superior Court on Nov. 8, 2010; they will return to court on Dec. 17.