After greater than a month on the run, the suspect wished in connection to the ugly Labor Day homicide at a Dorchester barbershop has been arrested.
Authorities apprehended Diamond Jose Brito, 32, of Canton, round 7 p.m. Thursday in Mattapan, the Boston Police Division mentioned in a launch early Friday morning.
Brito allegedly shot and killed Elijah Ricardo Clunie, 20, of Dorchester, and was “wanted on several warrants issued out of Dorchester District Court,” for the homicide, Boston Police mentioned.
The Boston Police Fugitive Unit, Massachusetts State Police VFAS Unit, and United States Marshals Fugitive Process Power took Brito into custody within the space 10 Temple St., in Mattapan.
Brito is predicted to be arraigned at present in Dorchester District Court docket.
A video that went viral on social media confirmed the graphic aftermath of the homicide scene on the Unique Barbershop on Washington Avenue in Dorchester.
The lower than minute-long clip confirmed the sufferer lifeless within the barber chair and one other sufferer shot, bleeding on the ground.
BPD responded to the scene at about 12:55 p.m. on Sept. 2.
The video begins on the road, and the individual recording the scene walks proper inside, pointing the mobile phone digicam on the two victims earlier than leaving the store as quick as he entered it. The footage pauses momentarily for a chilling close-up of the person lifeless within the barber chair.
“We’ve got you. Take some deep breaths,” a single officer is rapidly seen saying within the video as he attended to the injured man and placed on purple surgical gloves. That sufferer was seen bleeding from the aspect of his head, speaking on a mobile phone.
Each victims had been rushed to the hospital, with medical personnel announcing Clunie lifeless. The second sufferer, whose identification can be not launched, per the BPD, is predicted to outlive.
