PROSECUTOR: WITNESSES SAW THE GUN IN THE DEFENDANT’S HAND April 1, 2008 The Charlestown man charged with fatally shooting 20-year-old Mark Parilla on Monument Street two years ago is a skilled marksman whom multiple witnesses saw with a gun on the day of the shooting, a Suffolk County prosecutor told a Superior Court jury. “Seven individuals distinctly, separately said they saw the gun in CARLOS MALDONADO’s hand,” Assistant District Attorney David Fredette said. Pointing to Maldonado (D.O.B. 2/23/82), he said, “This guy right here is the murderer.” In a closing argument this morning, Fredette reiterated how multiple witnesses individually identified Maldonado to authorities as the only man with a gun on Dec. 26, 2006 when Mark Parilla was killed. Now a discharged Coast Guard member, Maldonado was “taught how to shoot and was designated as a marksman,” Fredette said. Evidence and testimony presented to the court during the two-week long trial suggests that after a fight in the Bunker Hill housing complex, Maldonado chased Mark Parilla with a handgun, firing multiple rounds during the chase. Parilla sustained three gunshot wounds, including a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Parilla was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he died as a result of his injuries. “This is first-degree murder, ladies and gentlemen, and nothing less,” Fredette told jurors, asking them to find Maldonado guilty on the theories of deliberate premeditation and of extreme atrocity and cruelty. “Carlos Maldonado intended to kill Mark Parilla,” Fredette said. “Find [him] guilty.” Superior Court Judge Thomas E. Connolly instructed jurors on the law, and they began their deliberations this afternoon. Maldonado is represented by attorney Robert Sheketoff. Return to the Press Releases page.