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Teen Indicted for Murder in Fatal Jackson Square Station Stabbing

Ronaldo Cepeda, 17, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with Mason Raymond's death.

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A Dorchester youth was indicted Wednesday on charges he fatally stabbed a 17-year-old male at the Jackson Square MBTA station in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

A Suffolk County grand jury returned an indictment charging Ronaldo Cepeda, 17, with second-degree murder in connection with Mason Raymond’s death on Oct. 22.

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According to prosecutors, Cepeda exited a bus at Jackson Square station that afternoon and sat on a bench outside the station’s turnstiles. Raymond entered the station a short time later.

A conversation between Cepeda and Raymond, who were known to one another, quickly escalated into a physical altercation during which Raymond suffered a fatal stab wound, prosecutors said.

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Raymond was rushed to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he died the next morning.

Cepeda was identified in part through footage captured by public safety cameras at the MBTA station.

Cepeda has been held without bail since his arraignment in Roxbury Municipal Court on Oct. 23. The indictment moves his case Suffolk Superior Court, where it will be adjudicated.

A date for Cepeda’s Superior Court arraignment has not yet been set.

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