BOSTON, Dec. 7, 2015—The families of Victor Otoadese and Sean Repetto remembered the two young men shot dead three years ago as their one-time friend was sentenced to two consecutive life terms, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

Tearful victim impact statements were delivered this morning as KEON MONTEIRO (D.O.B. 3/19/89) was sentenced on two counts of second-degree murder and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the Nov. 28, 2012, homicides.

“The evidence proved that this defendant shot Sean Repetto in the head, then took aim at Victor Otoadese and shot him twice in the back as he ran for his life,” Conley said. “These were separate and distinct murders, and consecutive life terms were the appropriate sentence.”

Otoadese’s mother took the witness stand wearing a shirt that featured the young man’s picture on the front and the words “Stop the Violence” on the back. She recalled watching television coverage of a double shooting on the day her 21-year-old son was killed.

“I said God bless the one who died and God bless the one who was going to the hospital,” she said. “I did not know the one who died was my darling son. I look up at the sky to see the special starlight that reminds me of you. I turn to feel the breeze on my face so I can feel you. I miss wiping the tears from your eyes when you needed your mother.”

Repetto’s father also addressed the court, speaking of a “smiling, laid-back kid” who had just begun to recover from a car crash that left him severely injured – and decided to go to nursing school so he could provide the same sort of care that had received.

“Race, religion, where you were from, and what you looked like didn’t matter to him,” he said, remembering a 25-year-old man who, as a child, was enamored of the theater and attended the Boston Arts Academy.

Assistant District Attorneys Craig Iannini and Kristina Kerwin proved during seven days of testimony that Monteiro, Otoadese, and Repetto had been friends in Quincy, but that Monteiro shot both of them in the back during an incident in the area of Batchelder and East Cottage streets in Roxbury at about 2:45 pm. The evidence showed that Monteiro shot Repetto in the head, then took aim as Otoadese ran for his life and fired twice more, hitting him in the head and torso.

Otoadese died a short time later. Repetto clung to life for several days but succumbed to his injuries on Dec. 6, 2012.

Thanks to significant assistance from civilian witnesses, Boston Police homicide detectives arrested Monteiro on May 16, 2013, amid an exhaustive investigation into the double slaying that continued for two more months behind the closed doors of the Suffolk County Grand Jury.

Jennifer Sears was the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. The defendant was represented by attorney John Tardiff.

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