Man charged with 2011 murder of Terrance Johnson in Uphams Corner

A Suffolk County grand jury yesterday indicted Joao F. Vicente, 26, on charges he shot Terrance Johnson to death on May 31, 2011, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office and Boston Police report.

Vicente allegedly shot Johnson in the back of the heat at Humphreys Street and Humphreys Place that night, then fled to Springfield, authorities say.

Since that time, Boston Police homicide detectives and Suffolk County prosecutors have been carefully and methodically gathering eyewitness statements, fingerprints, ballistics, and other evidence in the case, which led this week to sufficient grounds to charge Vicente.

Authorities did not have to lock Vicente up as he was already in the Norfolk County House of Corrections on an unrelated charge. In 2014, he was arrested in Braintree on assault and battery charges.

He is tentatively scheduled for arraignment on the murder charge on Oct. 6 in Suffolk Superior Court.

Innocent, etc.