DA: Man died shielding woman, child from gunmen

Two men were ordered held without bail today after prosecutors charged his killers shot him to death on Stanwood Street in Dorchester as he tried to shield a woman and her child from them, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Trevon Mason and Daryl Pullen are both charged with murdering Tyrone Smith in a fusillade of bullets on Jan. 7. Mason was out on bail the night of the murder on an earlier charge of holding up a pizza-delivery guy at gunpoint.

According to a statement from the DA's office:

Just after 9:00 p.m., 21-year-old Trevon Mason and 20-year-old Daryl Pullen were waiting on the side of 90-92 Stanwood St. in Boston. At about 9:15, 36-year-old Tyrone Smith approached the front of 94-96 Stanwood St. with [an adult female] and her 8-year-old son.

As they entered the front of the building, Mason and Pullen approached and opened fire. Their bullets struck [the woman] one time in the shoulder and Tyrone Smith multiple times as he attempted to shield [them] from additional shots that Mason and Pullen were firing into the building. The woman and child escaped into the building, but Smith died in the foyer.