Suspect in killings of doctors arraigned

Gunman recently out of prison is wounded

A Massachusetts man recently released from prison was arraigned in his hospital bed on two murder charges Monday while Boston’s medical community mourned two physicians murdered in their luxury penthouse apartment.

Bampumim Teixeira, 30, was ordered held without bail in the deaths of Richard Field, 50, and Lina Bolanos, 38, anesthesiologists who were found Friday night bound and left for dead, Suffolk County prosecutor John Pappas said. Pappas said Field was able to text a friend that a gunman was in the engaged couple’s apartment. The friend called the building ’s front desk, and police were then called. Responding officers encountered Teixeira, who began shooting, Pappas said.

Officers returned fire, and Teixeira was shot multiple times and taken to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries to his hand, leg and abdomen. No officers were shot, but several were transported to hospitals with minor injuries, police said.

Police have not discussed a motive, but Pappas said a backpack full of jewelry, believed to have been taken from Bolanos, was found in the apartment.

Police Commissioner William Evans said the couple’s apartment building, the Macallen Building in South Boston, had sophisticated security and that Teixeira likely knew the victims.

Teixeira, of Chelsea, has twice been convicted of larceny and had recently been released from jail, authorities said.