PROSECUTOR: MASSACRE SUSPECT “THE ONE AND ONLY SHOOTER” May 19, 2008 One man and one man only took the lives of Jason Bachiller, Jihad Chankhour, Edwin Duncan, and Chris Vieira in the basement of 43 Bourneside St. a little more than three years ago, First Assistant District Attorney Josh Wall told a Suffolk Superior Court jury this morning. It was one man who fired Vieira’s unregistered Glock 9mm again and again and again into the victims’ backs in a bid to steal that weapon and two others – a Mossberg 12-guage shotgun and an AK-47 rifle – on the night of Dec. 13, 2005, Wall said. And it was one man who stood over the dying victims shortly after 9:30 p.m. and pumped additional rounds into their bodies so that there would be no witnesses against him, Wall told the panel of 12 deliberating jurors and four alternates. That man, Wall said, was 21-year-old CALVIN CARNES, Jr. (D.O.B. 8/8/86), of Dorchester, whose trial on an 11-count indictment charging four counts of first-degree murder and an additional seven counts of robbery and weapons charges is now under way. “This was not an evil plan,” Wall said of the slayings during opening statements before Judge Patrick Brady in courtroom 815. “This was a spark of evil – but as you will learn, a spark of evil is every bit as deadly.” The 20-year-old Bachiller, 21-year-old Duncan, and 19-year-old Vieira were members of a fledgling rap group, Wall said, and would frequently socialize with the 22-year-old Chankhour – “not a member of the music group but a member of the social group” – in the basement of Duncan’s Bourneside Street home. The foursome had met a few years earlier when they attended Wakefield High School together and shared a passion for hip-hop music and culture. They would listen to and record music in Duncan’s basement, which had been outfitted with couches, a stereo, and recording equipment. “They didn’t lead the lives of gangsters,” Wall said of the group that called itself Graveside. “But they thought, if you don’t lead the life, maybe you need some props.” It was as props that the young men had obtained a Mossberg 12-guage shotgun and an AK-47 rifle, Wall said. Those weapons were stored in the Bourneside Street basement unbeknownst to Duncan’s mother and stepfather. More recently, Wall said, Vieira had also obtained a 9mm semiautomatic Glock handgun and was prone to showing it off and passing it around in gatherings. One such gathering, Wall said, was on the night of Dec. 13, 2005, when Bachiller, Chankhour, Duncan, and Vieira were joined by Carnes – “not best friends with the group, but a friend, and ROBERT TURNER, Carnes’ best friend,” Wall said. “Chris Vieira passed that gun around,” Wall said, “and that’s when the spark of evil arose. Calvin Carnes decided he wanted that gun and he wanted the other guns. That’s when he took the Glock and shot and killed Chris Vieira.” In the heartbeat that followed, Wall said, Carnes took stock of his relationships with Bachiller, Chankhour, and Duncan. “Now they weren’t friends,” he said. “Now they were witnesses. He rapidly fired at all three, killing all three.” Carnes fired a total of 15 rounds, Wall said, hitting with 13 of them. “If he hits 13 times, how many were to the victim’s front? Zero,” he said. “Every shot was to the back – to the back of the head, to the center of the back. This is how desperate he was to get rid of the witnesses. Some of those shots were while they were down – Calvin Carnes stood over them and shot down at them.” Carnes took Vieira’s car keys and fled the scene with Turner. In the days that followed, the two of them made efforts to hide the weapons and fabricate alibis. The stories they gave police were “a pack of lies,” Wall said, and Carnes even made statements in the hours after the murders in which he relayed information about who had died that no one – not even the victims’ families – knew. Later, he and Turner made efforts to sell the weapons, and Carnes even made deeply incriminating statements to two young women in the aftermath of the carnage. Carnes and Turner were arrested on May 11, 2006, amid an extensive investigation by Boston Police homicide detectives and Suffolk prosecutors in a special grand jury. Turner (D.O.B. 12/16/86), charged as an accessory after the fact to the murders, pleaded guilty to all charges last month and was sentenced to up to 13 years in state prison. “From Calvin Carnes’ actions, conduct, statements, and lies in the minutes, hours, days, and weeks after the killings,” Wall told the jurors, “you will know that you’re seated just a few feet away from the one and only shooter and killer of Chris Vieira, Edwin Duncan, Jason Bachiller, and Jihad Chankhour.” Carnes is represented by attorney Shannon Frison. Testimony is ongoing, with the trial expected to last about six weeks. Return to the Press Releases page.