BOSTON, Oct. 15, 2018—Three men have been indicted in connection with the shooting death this summer of 29-year-old Christian Rivera on Homestead Street, and two of them were arraigned today following their arrests late last week, Suffolk County District Attorney John P. Pappas said.

The Suffolk County Grand Jury on Friday returned indictments charging DEMETRIUS BENNETT, 27, and ADNAN TAHLIL, 24, with first-degree murder. Both men were arrested late Friday by Boston Police and arraigned today in Suffolk Superior Court, where Clerk Magistrate Rebeca Figueroa ordered them held without bail.

A third defendant, IRA HARRISON, was indicted Sept. 27; he has been held without bail since his July 19 arraignment in Roxbury Municipal Court and will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court at a later date.

Assistant District Attorney David Bradley of the DA’s Homicide Unit told the court that Bennett, Harrison, and Tahlil met up behind Harrison’s house between 2:20 and 2:30 pm on the afternoon of July 7. In two vehicles – a Hyundai Sonata and Chevrolet Equinox – they traveled from that location to the area of Humboldt Avenue, where Rivera was outdoors and standing with a group of people. Both vehicles passed by Rivera and the group, Bradley said.

Two men exited the Sonata a short distance away from the shooting scene, approached the group on foot, and opened fire, killing Rivera. Prosecutors say those men were Bennett and Harrison, and that they then fled on foot to the nearby Equinox, operated by Tahlil, who drove them away from the scene.

Jennifer Sears is the DA’s assigned victim witness advocate. Bennet is represented by John Sweeney and Tahlil by Jonathan Shapiro; both return to court Nov. 20. Harrison is represented by David Apfel and faces arraignment in Superior Court at a later date.

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