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FIVE HELD WITHOUT BAIL FOR 16-YEAR-OLD’S MURDER

March 3, 2008

Four principals and one accessory to the murder last year of 16-year-old Terrance Jacobs were held without bail today as a sixth suspect remains at large and the Special Grand Jury investigating the case continues to hear evidence, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley announced.

Arraigned today in Dorchester District Court were:

1. ADMILSON VIZCAINO, 16 (D.O.B. 8/23/91), of Dorchester, charged with murder and represented by attorney Jonathan Shapiro;

2. MARKEESE MITCHELL, 16 (D.O.B. 4/9/91), of Brockton, charged with murder and represented by attorney Elliot Weinstein;

3. TERRANCE PABON, 18 (D.O.B. 1/22/90), of Dorchester, charged with murder and represented by attorney Stephen Neyman;

4. PAUL GOODE, a.k.a. PAUL JONES, 25 (D.O.B. 1/9/83), of Dorchester, charged with murder and represented by attorney Scott Curtis; and

5. RICHARD ALLEN, 20 (D.O.B. 3/23/87), of Dorchester, charged as an accessory before the fact to murder and represented by attorney Robert Wheeler.

A sixth suspect, PEDRO ORTIZ, 28 (D.O.B. 8/8/79), of Dorchester, is also charged with murder and remains at large.

Assistant District Attorney Edmond Zabin recommended that all five defendants be held without bail; District Court Judge Kenneth V. Desmond granted that recommendation and ordered them to return to court on April 3.

Today’s defendants were taken into custody throughout the day and night of Feb. 29, when Boston Police homicide detectives and multiple specialized Boston Police units executed warrants for their arrests. Those warrants were based on evidence developed in the course of a complex and far-reaching investigation that continues even now on the street and behind the closed doors of the Suffolk County Special Grand Jury.

That evidence suggests Jacobs had been involved in a simmering dispute with a group associated with Havelock and Wilcock streets in Dorchester. That dispute escalated on the evening of May 22, 2007, in a violent confrontation between the victim and a large group of assailants.

Boston Police and emergency medical technicians responded to the area of Havelock Street and Blue Hill Avenue shortly before 8:00 to find Jacobs suffering from multiple stab wounds. The victim was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where doctors pronounced him dead of his injuries.

“Without the Special Grand Jury we use for homicides and other complex cases, an investigation of this length and scope could have delayed every other ongoing grand jury presentation,” Conley said. “It’s been a tremendously valuable tool – not just for this case but for all the others it allows us to investigate simultaneously.

The Special Grand Jury continues to hear evidence in Jacobs’ murder. To date, the grand jurors have heard testimony from more than a dozen witnesses and reviewed more than three dozen physical exhibits.