BOSTON, Oct. 14, 2014—The Dorchester man charged in the fatal June shooting of Craig Marriro was held without bail at his arraignment today, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.
DERRICK WOOD (D.O.B. 1/10/82) of Dorchester was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of first-degree murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful possession of ammunition. Wood has been held on $250,000 bail since his June 9 arraignment in Roxbury District Court on firearm charges; the firearm he was charged with possessing later proved to be a ballistic match to the one used to kill Marriro. Wood was ordered held without bail at the request of Assistant District Attorney David Bradley.
Bradley told the court that Marriro, 46, was standing on Harold Street in Roxbury at approximately 11:30 p.m. on June 8 when he was fired upon by an occupant of a small, red, two-door car that had stopped nearby. The vehicle then sped away.
Within minutes of the shooting, Boston Police officers in the area observed a red Toyota traveling at a high rate of speed in the area of Humbolt Avenue and fail to stop at a stop sign. As they pursued the vehicle, the officers received radio broadcast of a car matching its description that was involved in Marriro’s shooting, prosecutors said.
The vehicle drove onto the sidewalk in an attempt to pass another vehicle before crashing into several parked cars. One occupant of the vehicle was able to evade police; the other, identified as Wood, was taken into custody a short distance away. A semiautomatic handgun and a loaded magazine were located a short distance from the vehicle’s passenger side. Ballistics testing showed that the firearm is a ballistic match to the one used to shoot Marriro.
Marriro succumbed to his injuries at Boston Medical Center.
Jennifer Sears is the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Wood is represented by attorney Willie Davis. He will return to court Nov. 20.
–30–
All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
