A Suffolk County homicide prosecutor today said that 49-year-old Fred Bing was shot to death on Wilcock Street by two friends of a teen allegedly slain by Wilcock Street associates two years earlier.

Speaking at the arraignment of ABIONA JUSTICE SHARPE (D.O.B. 6/3/89) this morning, Assistant District Attorney Ian Polumbaum told Suffolk Superior Court Clerk Magistrate Gary D. Wilson that Sharpe and another man had been friends of Terrence Jacobs, stabbed to death at age 16 on May 22, 2007. Six alleged Wilcock Street associates have been charged in connection with Jacobs’ murder and are awaiting trial.

As the second anniversary of Jacobs’ stabbing death approached, Polumbaum told the court, Sharpe and DAMANTE BURRELL (D.O.B. 9/5/92) travelled to Wilcock Street and exchanged words with a group on the sidewalk, then left the area. They allegedly returned with two others in a minivan shortly before 10:30 p.m.

As the minivan passed several people gathered on Wilcock Street, Polumbaum said, “two shooters opened up.”

Sharpe allegedly fired a sawed-off .22-caliber rifle from the rear passenger’s seat. Simultaneously, Burrell allegedly leaned out the front passenger’s side window and fired a 9mm semiautomatic handgun over the top of the vehicle, striking and carving a gouge out of the roof. Both weapons were dumped in a nearby alley and matched ballistically to shell casings and projectiles later found at the scene and in the minivan.

The shots sent pedestrians running for cover. Bing’s friends, who escaped unharmed, thought that he had run safely from the scene; his lifeless body, however, was found early the following morning.

Of about a dozen rounds fired, three hit the older man. One struck him in the foot, one struck him in the thigh, and one struck him in the torso, traveling through his lung and killing him.

Boston Police responding to the gunfire soon encountered Sharpe, Burrell, and two others in an Acura. One was arrested with unlawful possession of ammunition and Sharpe was arrested on a warrant for violating his probation out of Chelsea District Court. None was charged with Bing’s homicide or gun offenses because neither the victim’s body nor the murder weapons had yet been discovered.

Investigators learned that a GPS monitor on Burrell’s ankle placed him near the scene of the murder around the time Bing was shot. Investigators also recovered four of Sharpe’s fingerprints on the rifle that was fired at Bing and recovered in the aftermath of his death. Both were subsequently indicted by the Suffolk County Grand Jury.

Wilson ordered Sharpe held without bail, just as he did with Burrell. The case will return to court with defense attorneys Michael Bourbeau and J.W. Carney, Jr., on Aug. 18.