BOSTON, Feb. 23, 2015—The man accused of shooting 22-year-old Ahmir Lee to death in the Back Bay was ordered held without bail pending trial, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said today.

MICHAEL JORDAN (D.O.B. 6/21/87) of Roxbury was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court this afternoon on indictments charging him with first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm for the 2013 homicide. Jordan was indicted Friday after a protracted investigation by Boston Police homicide detectives and Suffolk prosecutors in the grand jury. Jordan was arrested Saturday.

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Hickman of the DA’s Homicide Unit told Clerk Magistrate Gary D. Wilson that patrons at a Copley Square restaurant thought the gunshots just after 11:00 p.m. on Aug. 22, 2013, were firecrackers – until they saw Lee run from the direction of Trinity Church and collapse on Boylston Street.

Lee was rushed from the scene to Boston Medical Center, where he died of a gunshot wound to the chest.

Witnesses told responding Boston Police of a man wearing a blue shirt who was holding a gun and firing at the victim. This man, they said, ran from Boylston to Clarendon Street, where he put the gun in his waistband and entered an older, cream-colored ragtop vehicle that he drove from the scene.

Over the days, weeks, and months that followed, Boston Police and Suffolk prosecutors scoured surveillance video from the area and pursued additional avenues of investigation that led them to Jordan.

Hickman told the court that investigators learned of a 1991 Chrysler New Yorker registered to Jordan – a ragtop, she said, and cream-colored. She also told the court that public safety cameras in the area of Jordan’s home not only showed this vehicle parked in front for extended periods of time but also showed Jordan wearing a blue shirt and entering it at about 7:00 p.m. on Aug. 22, 2013, and returning sometime after 1:00 on the morning of Aug. 23, 3013.

The car, which was frequently parked near Jordan’s home prior to Lee’s homicide, disappeared from the area afterward, Hickman said.

Cell tower records place Jordan’s phone in the area of Copley Square on the night Lee was slain, Hickman said, and text messages from Jordan to his wife and friends appear to refer to that homicide and Boston Police investigators trying to solve it.

Michael Glennon is the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Jordan is represented by attorney Lefteris Travayiakis. He will return to court on April 14 to set a trial date.

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