Two suspects arrested after man is gunned down on Devon Street

A man was shot and killed on Monday night (Dec. 9) on Devon Street, a side road off Columbia Road, and Boston Police said that they arrested two men who are suspects in the fatal incident. According to a BPD account, officers, who were alerted to the gunfire by the ShotSpotter system just before 10:30 p.m., found the victim— later identified as Keith Cousin, 37, of Bayonne, NJ, — already deceased with multiple gunshot wounds.

A BPD report indicates that detectives viewed cameras to help identify suspects while officers on the scene “observed two individuals leaving an alley in the rear of 270 Columbia Road.” After a foot chase, the men were arrested and two firearms were recovered along their “flight path.”

The suspects— Darius Powell, 25, of Woonsocket, R.I., and Daiquan Miller, 25, of Dorchester— were arraigned on gun charges in Dorchester court on Tuesday. Both were ordered held without bail at least pending a dangerous hearing on Dec. 17.

They have not yet been charged in the homicide.

Anyone with information is urged to contact detectives at 617-343-4470.


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