BOSTON, Aug. 29, 2016—A Hyde Park man was ordered held without bail today in the homicide last weekend of 35-year-old Ailton Goncalves on Dudley Terrace, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

AARON ALMEIDA (D.O.B. 12/6/93) was arraigned in Roxbury Municipal Court. He was charged with murder for Goncalves’ Aug. 20 fatal shooting, armed assault with intent to murder and aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon for seriously injuring a woman in her 30s during the same incident, and unlawful possession of a firearm.

Assistant District Attorney Amy Galatis of the DA’s Homicide Unit told the court that Goncalves was socializing with a group of friends at the end of Dudley Terrace, “minding his own business” just after midnight, when a woman unconnected with the group came out of a nearby residence.

At about this time, Galatis said, Almeida can be seen on footage from nearby surveillance cameras making his way from Dudley Street onto Monadnock Street and then onto nearby Dudley Terrace.  About half or two-thirds of the way down Dudley Terrace, Galatis said, Almeida opened fire, hitting Goncalves and the female victim multiple times before running from the scene.

Goncalves was mortally wounded. The female victim remains hospitalized with serious and possibly life-altering injuries.

Based on video footage and other evidence, Boston Police homicide detectives arrested Almeida on Saturday. Yesterday, they obtained and executed search warrants at two locations frequented by him and recovered clothing identical to that worn by the assailant and two firearms.

The investigation into the shooting that claimed Goncalves’ life and injured the surviving victim remains very active. Anyone with additional information is asked to share it with Boston Police homicide detectives at 617-343-4470.

Almeida was represented today by attorney Michael Roitman. He returns to court on Oct. 5.

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