BOSTON, June 4, 2013—Maiqi Hernandez, a 35-year-old father of two and a security guard at Harvard University, was shot dead by a man angry over their earlier exchange of words, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office said today.

DEVONE SUBER (D.O.B. 2/4/86) was arraigned on a murder charge today, almost exactly one month after he allegedly shot Hernandez to death from the hallway of the Prentiss Street apartment building in which the victim lived.

Suber has been in custody since a short time after the May 3 slaying – Boston Police investigating the shooting arrested him with a box of live bullets leaving the nearby Annunciation Road housing development. Prosecutors recommended he be held on $25,000 cash bail at his May 3 arraignment for unlawful possession of ammunition; bail was set at $3,500. Today, prosecutors asked that he be held without bail given the upgrade in charges, and Judge David Poole granted that request.

Assistant District Attorney Edmond Zabin, chief of the DA’s Homicide Unit, told the court that Suber and Hernandez had a brief verbal altercation in the building prior to the shooting, and that Suber left the scene and came back with a gun. At about 12:40 that morning, he allegedly opened the victim’s apartment door and shot Hernandez in the chest, killing him.

“It shocks the conscience,” Conley said. “The argument was over. The conflict was finished. And yet the evidence suggests he came back and shot this man who posed no threat and offered no reason to hurt him.”

Multiple Boston Police units responded to the scene and received a description of the assailant. Officers soon spotted Suber, who matched that description, in the area of Annunciation Road, about a block away from the crime scene. When they pulled up to speak with him, he allegedly made the spontaneous statement that “I found it. It’s not mine. I found it in Mattapan.”

The officers pat-frisked him and recovered a box containing 45 live rounds of .357 caliber ammunition. That ammunition shared the same class characteristics of the round that killed Hernandez, Zabin said.

Suber was represented by attorney Eduardo Masferrer. He will return to court on July 19.

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