DA: Jeffrey Kelly's killer threatened and trailed him before shooting him to death outside a JP market

Amos Carrasquillo wasn't going to let a federal court order keep him out of Jamaica Plain and the result is that Jeffrey Kelly is dead - shot to death after Carrasquillo had threatened and physically attacked him days earlier, prosecutors charged today.

Carrasquillo, 28, well known at Bromley-Heath before he was sent away in 2007 for drug dealing there, as an 18-year-old "career criminal," was supposed to stay out of the neighborhood as a condition of his federal parole.

But, Suffolk County and federal prosecutors, Carrasquillo repeatedly returned to the neighborhood. Last fall, a federal judge sent him back to prison for violating that condition - along with other requirements that he stay away from drugs and from known criminals. This past Tuesday, just two days before Boston Police arrested him for Kelly's murder, he was in federal court again, being ordered back to federal prison for violating those conditions again.

According to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, Kelly - a well known JP panhandler - and Carrsaquillo knew and disliked each other. In the week before Kelly's death on Aug. 27, Carrasquillo threatened Kelly, who used a wheelchair, one day and physically attacked him on another, both times outside the 7-Eleven and Centre Street and South Huntington Avenue, where Kelly was a regular, the DA's office charges.

The investigation further revealed that Carrasquillo was in the area of that convenience store for several hours prior to the early morning homicide, at one point trailing Kelly in a vehicle. When Kelly went into the store, prosecutors say, Carrasquillo approached and shot him as he exited, killing him.

As is usual in murder cases, Carrasquillo was ordered held without bail today, at his arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court.

Innocent, etc.