Kyrice Grady was the key witness in a capital murder case, the man who told a grand jury he saw Charon Ray, 21, shoot and kill a 14-year-old on a summer evening in 2004.
But before the trial started, Grady allegedly tried to swing a deal with prosecutors: If they wanted his testimony, he wanted his gun charges dropped, or else he would change his story. Prosecutors refused, and say Grady made good on his word.
He told the trial jury last year he never saw Da-Keem Galloway gunned down on a street in Roxbury. He said he had never met the defendant, never pointed him out in a photo array, and was nowhere near the crime scene that day. As for his previous testimony, he said he could not remember it because he was high on marijuana at the time.
Yesterday, he was in Suffolk Superior Court facing the possibility of life in prison for perjury. Standing with his hands cuffed and shackled at his waist, Grady, 22, of Dorchester, pleaded not guilty.
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