Attorney: Questions surround shooting

CHELSEA – “There are far more questions than easy answers” surrounding Daniel Talbot’s death, said the attorney representing the only person charged so far in connection with the Sept. 29 shooting of the Revere police officer.Prominent defense attorney J.W. Carney, Jr. represented Derek Lodie Tuesday in District Court where a judge set Lodie’s next court appearance for Dec. 5.Lodie pleaded not guilty last week to being an accessory before the fact to murder – a charge that carries a life prison sentence. The 17-year-old is being held in the Suffolk County jail in Boston.A prosecutor said Lodie exchanged words with Talbot and three other off duty police officers on the Revere High School ball field before summonsing three friends, one of whom shot Talbot.Talbot was buried Saturday.Carney said Lodie is “saddened” by Talbot’s death but “is not responsible for this tragedy.””The facts and circumstances of the incident are very unusual and suspicious and right now there are far more questions than easy answers,” Carney said.Lodie did not sit in open view in the courtroom Tuesday or last week when he was arraigned. Police officers attending yesterday’s hearing wore T-shirts emblazoned with “163 Never Forget” memorializing Talbot’s police badge number.A Saugus resident arrested at a Revere parade Monday while wearing a shirt with the words “Free Lodie” scrawled on it is scheduled to be arraigned in court today on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and assault and battery on a police officer.Police and Pat Starkey said a confrontation between Starkey’s stepson and another man preceded the incident that resulted in his arrest.Lodie is the only person charged in connection with Talbot’s murder, but police last week searched the Revere homes of two other men, James Heang and Robert Iacoviello.A Suffolk Superior Court judge on Oct. 5 ordered the results of the searches and lists of items sought by police not released to the public because they contained “sensitive and detailed information concerning an ongoing homicide investigation into the shooting death of Officer Daniel Talbot – disclosure of such information at this time would seriously jeopardize the ongoing investigation into this homicide.”The judge also impounded information on police searches last week of a 1999 Toyota Corolla and two other addresses besides Heang’s and Iacoviello’s – 58 Fenno St., apt. 2 and 11 Adams Court, apt. 2.Heang and Iacoviello were charged with firearms violations last week following the searches. The Suffolk District Attorney’s office has said the charges are unrelated to the Talbot investigation.According to court records, police seized a 9-millimeter handgun during the search. The records indicate Iacoviello admitted to firing the gun in a field next to local public housing apartments.Iacoviello was on probation at the time of his arrest as a result of the suspended sentence he received on May 23 for a drug charge. He was charged with possession of marijuana and other offenses on Dec. 29, 2006 when police found him and two other people in a storage room in the apartment of what police described as “a known gang member in Revere.”Talbot was one of the officers who transported Iacoviello to the Revere police station after his arrest.