South End man charged with murder for body found during five-alarm Roxbury fire

Victor Montes-Severino, 21, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today on a charge of murder for the death of a Pennsylvania man whose body was found - with multiple stab wounds - by firefighters battling a five-alarm fire at 104 Winthrop St.

Data from the GPS device he was wearing at the time placed him at the scene, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office charges. The DA's office says an investigation into the fire continues and that Montes-Severino could face additional charges.

Montes-Severino admitted himself to Boston Medical Center on the night of the fire with a laceration to his hand, which he claimed was the result of being mugged in Chinatown. A subsequent review of the GPS monitor he was wearing revealed that he was, in fact, in the area of Bernabel’s Winthrop Street residence. As the investigation continued, Boston Police criminalists uploaded biological material recovered at the scene to the state’s DNA database – to which Montes-Severino had submitted a sample following his conviction on a 2012 robbery. Severino was sentenced to two and a half years behind bars on that charge.

Innocent, etc.