BOSTON, Nov. 18, 2016—Hours after his arrest for the shooting death of 24-year-old Anthony Toombs in Roxbury, a Dorchester man was held without bail on murder and related charges, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

ANTOIWANE DAVIS (D.O.B. 8/30/93) was arrested by Boston Police this morning and arraigned in Roxbury Municipal Court this afternoon on charges of murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, and unlawfully discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling. At the request of Assistant District Attorney Amy Galatis of the DA’s Homicide Unit, Judge David Weingarten ordered him held without bail.

Galatis told the court that evidence developed in the course of the ongoing investigation indicated that Toombs was sitting alone in a car on Nazing Street on the morning of Nov. 5. Just after 10:10 am, she said, Davis approached the driver’s side of the car from the sidewalk and fired repeatedly into the vehicle before fleeing on foot. Toombs was rushed to a hospital where he died of his injuries.

Davis was represented today by attorney Victoria Kelleher. He will return to court on Dec. 20.

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