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JP man with violent record admits he fatally shot teen in the South End

Johnnie Bonnie, 23, pleaded guilty yesterday to voluntary manslaughter just as his trial for killing Evens Archer, 17, outside a South End party in 2014 was about to begin, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

The sentence means Bonnie could face up to 20 years in prison at his sentencing today. Whatever his sentence, he will not start it until after he finishes the 5-to-7 year sentence he got last year after he was convicted of illegal gun possession following gunfire outside the Ashmont T stop roughly three months after he killed Archer.

At the time of the gun arrest, Bonnie was out on bail for a May, 2014, incident involving a stolen Randolph school van that ended with him and seven other people allegedly running through Roslindale Square before being captured.

And at the time of that arrest, he was on probation for a 2011 stabbing on Tremont Street along the Common, after finishing up a 2 1/2-year jail sentence for his role in the attack.

According to the DA's office:

Assistant District Attorney Amy Galatis of the DA's Homicide Unit would have introduced evidence and testimony to prove that Archer and Bonnie had attended the same party on Castle Court in Boston's South End on the night of June 28 into the morning of June 29.

Galatis would have sought to prove that Bonnie fired a .22 caliber semiautomatic handgun, hitting Archer once in the head, at about 1:50 am before running away down East Berkeley Street and onto Shawmut Avenue.

Video evidence from a nearby camera did not capture the shooting or reveal the gunman's identity, but it did show the assailant fleeing the scene and crouching near a sewer grate. When investigators searched the drain below, they recovered a firearm that was a ballistic match to the projectile that killed Archer.

Archer died after several weeks in the hospital.

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I blame the gun. Without it he probably would have been home doing his college physics homework. Guns turn good people into good people who do bad things.

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With a knife he only hurt someone. With a gun he killed someone. Why you want to make it easier for violent criminals to kill people is something you should think about.

No one is arguing guns make people do bad things. We can see through your BS strawman argument. Guns allow them to do bad things more easily.

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If existing gun laws were adequately enforced he would not have hurt anyone.

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Because no one has ever been fatally stabbed with a knife. Right.

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Who said I want to make it easier for him to get a gun? Stop projecting your arguments with others on me. I'm happy to ridicule both sides of the gun control argument since both extremes are equally idiotic. At least now we know which type you are.

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Knives surprisingly do more damage. Much larger wound tract.

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You just have to love the bail system for these violent offenders. Way to go Massachusetts.

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Even I know what bail means. You should look it up sometime (hint: innocent until proven guilty).

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Maybe you could explain it to Mr. Archer's family?

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Because we should've known before the fact that he was guilty of this crime, and thus kept him locked up for it. Beforehand.

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Haven't you seen the documentary about this? It came out like 10 years ago.

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Except for no fly lists.

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His parents...who named him "Johnny Bonnie." Kids are already mean. Think before you give your child a rhyming name.

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