A Boston man was convicted of stabbing a teen in the neck, killing him, during the city’s annual Caribbean Festival in 2021.

“What verdicts can never do is erase the pain and loss and grief of losing a loved one,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said after the verdict. “I’m grateful for the jury’s service and verdict in this tragic and inexplicable act of violence—which ended the life of a young man enjoying a city festival.”

A Suffolk Superior Court jury on Monday convicted Omara Shears, 46, of the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Javare Sommerville-Adams on Aug. 28, 2021.

Prosecutors say Shears, 46, walked up to Sommerville-Adams outside Stash’s Pizza in Dorchester at about 9:20 a.m. and stabbed the teen in the neck. The two had no known connection to each other prior to the murder, according to prosecutors.

Fake chiropractor, accused pervert

Prosecutors say a Somerville man pretended to be a chiropractor to take sexual advantage of clients.

Jose Mendez, 60, was arraigned at Somerville District Court last week on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, indecent exposure and operating as an unlicensed chiropractor. Bail was set at $5,500 and Mendez was ordered to stay away from the alleged victims and not practice as a chiropractor. He is due to return to court on May 14.

Investigators say that Mendez was operating an unlicensed chiropractic business out of his Cross Street home. In at least two instances, prosecutors say, he did inappropriate things with clients, including inappropriate touching and exposing himself.

Somerville Police say that they believe Mendez promoted his business through word-of-mouth referrals and that they are actively investigating the scope of his alleged conduct. They ask that anyone with any information to contact them at 617-625-1600, extension 7278.

Restaurant worker killed in Framingham

A man authorities identified on Tuesday as Anthony Junior Lopez, 30, was found dead with “obvious trauma to his body” behind the Framingham sandwich shop where he worked.

Framingham Police rushed to Hot Table on Worcester Road at around 10 Saturday night where they found Lopez’s body behind the restaurant. Authorities say he was scheduled to work that evening.

Lopez’s body was transferred to a medical examiner to determine the cause of death.

Police ask that anyone with any information regarding the incident or who “may have seen something unusual in the area of 1 Worcester Road” that night to call them at 508-532-5923.

Crack is wack

Boston Police arrested five people following searches of three Roxbury addresses Saturday night and charged with trafficking some heavy drugs: fentanyl and crack cocaine.

The BPD says that they arrested Jose Virella-Castro, 41, of Boston; Jarlin Soto-Soto, 41, of Dorchester; Alejandro Fernandez, 62, of Roxbury; Michael Moreira, 57, for Roxbury; and Rafael Puntier, 54, of Roxbury; following midday searches of three addresses in Roxbury near where it meets the South End: 35 Northampton St., 155 Eustis St., and 161 W. Springfield St.

Police say they recovered about 253 grams of crack divided into 459 individual baggies, 980 grams of fentanyl across 412 baggies, as well as almost $8,000 in cash.

The searches were the culmination of “several months of investigation” between the BPD and a Drug Enforcement Administration task force.