Monday at 11:00 a.m., Xavier Bautista’s family and friends gathered at Saint Mary of the Annunciation Parish on Norfolk St. for his funeral. Two hours prior, Rayquon Brown, a 29-year-old resident of Canton, was arraigned at the Cambridge District Court and charged with the murder of Bautista in Cambridge on July 4. Brown was also charged with “carrying a firearm without a license, being an armed career criminal and conspiring to commit murder,” according to a press release from the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office.
According to an autopsy, Bautista died from two gunshot wounds, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan and acting Cambridge Police Commissioner Pauline Wells said in a statement.
The statement said Bautista left home at around 4:00 a.m. and was wearing navy-blue Cambridge Department of Public Works work attire. Video footage shows he was “confronted by multiple men wearing masks who shot and killed him. The parties and the defendant then fled the scene in a white Dodge Ram pickup truck.”…