MAN CHARGED TESTIFIED LAST WEEK

Robbery suspect blamed other for murder

A Dorchester man was charged with a vicious home invasion allegedly committed days after he gave key testimony in a high-profile murder trial — a crime the murder defendant’s lawyer said should have been presented at trial.

Roy Wilson, 23, and two other so-far unidentified assailants reportedly stormed into a third-floor apartment on Ronan Street demanding money at around 2 a.m. Sunday, according to a police incident report.

Wilson testified last week during the murder trial of Onyx White, 23, charged with the 2010 murder of beloved Roxbury grandfather Geraldo Serrano, 71. Wilson told the jury White killed Serrano during a robbery at the Hermanos Unidos bodega in Dorchester — a crime that rocked the city at the time.

The case ended in a hung jury for White on the murder charge on Wednesday.

During the trial, White’s attorney, J.W. Carney Jr., said Wilson was the one who actually shot Serrano, and argued he conspired with another then-teenager, Martin Freels, to pin the crime on White. Wilson pled guilty as a youthful offender to a charge of being an accessory after the fact.

Carney said he learned of Wilson’s arrest early Monday morning.

“I wanted to offer evidence of the new crime,” Carney told the Herald. “It would rebut Wilson’s statement at trial that he hadn’t robbed the Hermanos Unidos market because he had stopped committing armed robberies.”

On Sunday night, six adults and three children were home on the narrow, deadend street when the robbers stormed the apartment, court documents state. One of the victims grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Wilson in the back, documents show. Wilson shot the victim in the right upper thigh and the man struggled with Wilson until another suspect put a gun to his head and ordered him to stop, records show.

Wilson and the two other suspects allegedly robbed the apartment and Wilson was arrested after he knocked on the door of a random home nearby, looking for medical help, documents state.

Charged with armed home invasion and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, Wilson was ordered held on $250,000 bail, according to Suffolk District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Renee Algarin.

Carney’s request to let the jury hear about Wilson’s new arrest was denied. The jury deadlocked on the murder charge, but convicted White for unlawful possession of a firearm.

Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office backed the judge’s ruling, arguing introducing the recent arrest “amounted to presenting an unproven allegation.”

Prosecutors say they plan to try White for murder a second time. He is due back in court next Thursday for sentencing.