BOSTON, Feb. 29, 2016—A suspect in the shooting death of 17-year-old D’Andre King-Settles was arraigned today following his arrest this weekend by Boston Police homicide detectives, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

TSUNAMI ORTIZ (D.O.B. 12/21/98) is charged with murder in the Dec. 18, 2015, encounter that claimed King-Settles’ life. He is additionally charged with two counts of armed assault with intent to murder reflecting shots fired at two surviving victims, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for a grazing injury to one of them, and firearms offenses. At the request of Assistant District Attorney Catherine Ham, Roxbury Municipal Court Judge David Weingarten ordered him held without bail.

Ham told the court that the victim and two friends had just left a building on Annunciation Road when shots rang out from behind them. King-Settles was hit and suffered a fatal injury; a second victim, age 19 at the time, was grazed by a bullet but not seriously injured.

Ham said footage from a surveillance camera inside the building shows Ortiz and another man enter the building, leave, and return a short time before the victims arrive. The footage shows the victims leave the building, followed by Ortiz and the second man a short time later.

Ham said the footage was of sufficient quality to identify Ortiz, and that cell tower data linked to his cell phone is consistent with his presence in the area of the shooting at the time it occurred.

The investigation into King-Settles’ homicide remains very active, police and prosecutors said. Anyone with additional information on the incident is asked to contact the Boston Police Homicide Unit at 617-343-4470.

Ortiz was represented today by attorney John Galvin. He will return to court on March 28.

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