$200k BAIL FOR CHINATOWN SLAY SUSPECT March 19, 2008 A Suffolk Superior Court Clerk Magistrate today ordered a homeless man held on $200,000 cash bail following his arraignment for the stabbing death of another man in a Chinatown apartment building last month, District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced. ANTHONY CHAMBERS, 51 (D.O.B. 1/15/57), was formally charged with manslaughter for allegedly stabbing 28-year-old Edward Quiles in the neck, killing him, during a physical altercation inside an apartment at One Nassau Street on the afternoon of Feb. 10. Chambers was arrested that same day on a murder charge. “The charge of manslaughter is supported by the facts and evidence developed in the course of a month-long grand jury investigation,” Conley said. “It’s the appropriate charge in this case.” Assistant District Attorney Ian Polumbaum today told the court that Chambers and Quiles were staying with a mutual acquaintance who leased an apartment in the high-rise. At some point in the early afternoon of the incident, the two men became involved in a verbal altercation. At about 1:30, Polumbaum said, Boston Police received a 911 call from the defendant, who stated that Quiles was “flipping out” and threatening him. Shortly thereafter, the resident – who had been outside the apartment – returned to find the men engaged in a scuffle and went to the lobby where he asked a concierge to call 911. Seconds later, Chambers was spotted leaving the building as a Boston Police officer responded to his original phone call. The officer followed Chambers onto nearby Harrison Avenue, where the officer noted blood on his hands and clothes. Additional officers also responded to the scene and discovered Quiles dead from a stab wound to the neck inside the apartment. A bloodstained kitchen knife was recovered nearby. Chambers was placed under arrest and later gave a statement in which he allegedly told Boston Police that Quiles had attacked him with the knife and that he had grabbed Quiles’ hand and turned the knife on him, resulting in the fatal injury. Chambers was represented by attorney John Sinsheimer. He will return to court on April 29. Return to the Press Releases page.