Double-slay suspect held without bail as 1 victim laid to rest
A Dorchester man charged with a double murder for shooting at a crowd at a housing complex in Jamaica Plain was ordered held without bail yesterday while grieving relatives buried one of the slain men.
“We buried my dad today,” Brandie Broglin, daughter of Clayborn Blair, 58, a Navy veteran and a Pine Street Inn custodian, told the Herald.
Wilvin Guity, 28, was arraigned yesterday on two counts of murder and a single count of unlawful possession of a firearm at Roxbury District Court and ordered held without bail.
“The fact he will answer for the things he’s done will make me feel better,” Broglin said. “It won’t bring him back. He took somebody who was well-loved and respected.”
Blair was killed along with Christopher D. Joyce, 23, who was less than two weeks away from graduating from Salem State University, in a shooting at the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments on the night of May 4. Blair and Joyce were innocent bystanders, cops have said.
Surveillance cameras captured a white Ford Fusion arriving on Chestnut Avenue and a man wearing a gray hoodie and distinctively patterned sneakers, identified by prosecutors as Guity, getting out. Guity was also captured on camera as he walked into the complex and shot at a group of about 15 people in a Centre Street park, prosecutors said.
Guity then ran back in the direction of Chestnut Avenue, reentered the white sedan and left the area, authorities said.
Ten different cameras captured the vehicle as it traveled to the Orchard Gardens housing development; five additional cameras captured Guity getting out of the vehicle on Degautier Way and enter a nearby liquor store, prosecutors said — no longer wearing the hooded sweatshirt but still wearing the same patterned sneakers.
Detectives executed a search warrant of Guity’s home that resulted in the recovery of the same unique sneakers worn during the shooting, prosecutors said.
The investigation into the fatal shootings remains ongoing.