A Dorchester District Court judge today ordered two men held without bail following their arraignments on charges that they shot a 36-year-old man to death and nearly killed an adult female and her young child in the foyer of a Stanwood Street building earlier this year, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced.

Assistant District Attorney Edward Krippendorf told the court that Tyrone Smith died in a hail of gunfire as he used his body to shield the woman and 8-year-old child from bullets fired by TREVON MASON (D.O.B. 12/30/87) and DARYL PULLEN (D.O.B. 6/20/88), both of Dorchester, on the night of Jan. 7.

Both men were charged with murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and unlawful possession of a firearm.

“Just after 9:00 p.m., 21-year-old Trevon Mason and 20-year-old Daryl Pullen were waiting on the side of 90-92 Stanwood St. in Boston,” Krippendorf told the court. “At about 9:15, 36-year-old Tyrone Smith approached the front of 94-96 Stanwood St. with [an adult female] and her 8-year-old son.”

As they entered the front of the building, Krippendorf said, “Mason and Pullen approached and opened fire. Their bullets struck [the woman] one time in the shoulder and Tyrone Smith multiple times as he attempted to shield [them] from additional shots that Mason and Pullen were firing into the building.”

The woman and child escaped into the building, but Smith died in the foyer. Mason and Pullen fled in different directions, the prosecutor said: the former toward Normandy Street and the latter through backyards leading to Devon Street.

Mason was arrested a short time later after Boston Police found him hiding in the back porch of a nearby home. The officers observed footprints leading toward that spot from another nearby porch; under that porch, they recovered a handgun that was later found to be consistent with rounds recovered from the scene. He was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm, and has been held since his arraignment the next day.

Pullen was also detained a short time after the crime. He was transported to Boston Police Headquarters, where he gave a voluntary statement; the evidence necessary to hold him was insufficient, however, and he was released. Police questioned him again after additional evidence was developed in the course of a grand jury investigation, and he allegedly admitted to shooting at Smith. He was taken into custody at that time.

Both men will return to court on March 25.