One of two doctors found dead and bound inside their penthouse in a luxury condominium building had texted a friend that there was “a gunman in the house,” prosecutors revealed Monday as the suspect in their slayings was arraigned from his hospital bed.
Authorities said that friend called police on Friday night, and responding officers found the bodies of Dr. Lina Bolanos and Dr. Richard Field, along with a black backpack filled with jewelry, prosecutors said at suspect Bampumim Teixeira’s arraignment.
An attorney for Teixeira, 30, entered not-guilty pleas on his behalf to two counts of murder. Teixeira kept his eyes closed through his arraignment, and his lawyer didn’t argue for bail. Teixeira had been shot in the hand, abdomen and leg during a shootout with police.
Officers responding to a report of a man with a gun Friday found keys to the engaged doctors’ condo on the floor outside and discovered the unit in the Macallen Building dark when they entered, Suffolk County prosecutors said.
Field had sent the text message to a friend, prosecutors said.
Police Commissioner William Evans said Teixeira opened fire when officers confronted him. Officers fired back, hitting Teixeira multiple times. He was taken to a hospital with not life-threatening injuries. No officers were injured.
The district attorney’s office said Teixeira has a pair of larceny convictions on his record from bank robberies.
Bolanos, 38, was a pediatric anesthesiologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, according to its website, and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Field, 49, also an anesthesiologist, worked at North Shore Pain Management.