BOSTON, Aug. 17, 2018—More than two and a half years after 30-year-old Eden Jacquet was shot to death in his Mission Hill home, the man allegedly responsible has been arrested and held without bail, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

KEVIN FERNANDES, 24, was arraigned in West Roxbury Municipal Court today following his arrest by Boston Police yesterday on a warrant charging him with Jacquet’s 2016 murder on Fenwood Road.

Assistant District Attorney David Bradley told the court that Fernandes visited Jacquet on Jan. 13, 2016, but returned at about 6:00 that same evening. People in the area heard a commotion at this time, prosecutors say, and Fernandes shot Jacquet in the chest, killing him.

Text messages that had previously been inaccessible to investigators were recovered from Jacquet’s iPhone earlier this year using new technology pursuant to a Suffolk Superior Court search warrant. Among those messages was one from Fernandes indicating that he had arrived at Jacquet’s apartment – sent moments before the fatal shooting.

A shell casing was recovered from the scene of Eden’s homicide. That casing, prosecutors said, was later ballistically matched to casings recovered about 10 days later from the scene of a call for shots fired at another location, where Fernandes was present; the gun was not recovered.

Fernandes was represented today by attorney Kelli Porges. He will return to court on Sept. 17.

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