Updated: 10:51 AM EST Jan 23, 2022. Gunshotswere fired, but no one washurt. : Denzel Descartes) pic.twitter.com/5P98tpqOIY. We ask you to keep your comments relevant and respectful. A man who works at a car wash near Motel Pierre said he wasnt surprised to learn a murder suspect had been gunned down there. Thank you to the @SPVM and our partners at @policelaval and @sureteduquebec, the last 48 hours have been trying for everyone. Police and DA Michael Morrissey say Hammond-Desir shot and killed Dijoun Beasley, 26, of Dorchester, at an undisclosed store on the main floor of the mall around 3 p.m. Saturday. Dijoun Beasley, 26, of Dorchester, was shopping at. Police are investigating a brazen daytime shooting that sent shoppers fleeing from the South Shore Plaza in Braintree. Investigators are asking anyone with information about the shooting to call Braintree police at 781-794-8620 or Massachusetts State Police at 781-830-4990. A stabbing in 2020 left a man critically injured. Police said the victim is in grave shooting, and the suspect is not in custody at this time. / CBS Boston. The curtains are old and its parking lot, which was crawling with cops Thursday morning, is cracked and poorly maintained. In a press conference Saturday night, Morrissey said they are still determining if there was more than one suspect involved in the shooting. The investigation into the incident remains ongoing, Morrissey said, and the shooter remains at-large. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts. "This is unacceptable, and we will be working with the South Shore Plaza assignment properties to come up solutions to these problems," said Braintree Mayor Charles C. Kokoros. BRAINTREE (CBS) -- A man who was shot inside the South Shore Plaza on Saturday has died, the Norfolk District Attorney's Office announced Monday. BRAINTREE, Mass. He wants better cameras installed. Julius Hammond-Desir, 19, faces a murder charge in the Jan. 22 shooting of Dijoun Beasley at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree. Schwartz was arrested Thursday and pleaded not guilty to the charge in Quincy District Court Friday morning. Some officers were already at the mall at the time of the shooting, Braintree police said in a statement. A male victim has been transported to a Boston hospital. Cold Case Cards: All In Is It Ever Too Hopeless? Shortly after the shooting, officials said it was gang-related. 1:58. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. arrested Samantha Schwartz, 27, of Attleboro. BRAINTREE, MA The owner of the South Shore Plaza pledged to improve security at the Braintree mall following a fatal shooting on Jan. 22. Anyone who has any information regarding the incident is asked to contact the Braintree Police Department by calling (781) 794-8620 or the Massachusetts State Police at (781) 830-4990. An animal rescue group in Longueuil is calling the actions of a Longueuil police (SPAL) officer "outrageous" after the officer was filmed shooting a deer . Our officers should be the ones handling any K-9s in any type of situation like that.". Police protect the scene after a man suspected of three homicides was shot dead by Montreal police Aug. 4, 2022. "They do have a dog they brought in that can be used to detect weapons," Kokoros said. Samantha Schwartz, 27, was arraigned Jan. 28in Quincy District Court on a charge of accessory after the fact ofmurder. It has to stop.". A car believed to be that of the suspect is under watch near the Motel Pierre on Thursday. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. "(Last month's) incident is just unacceptable and I think stopping crime takes a multifaceted approach," Romstad said. Julius Hammond-Desir, 19, faces a . We encountered an issue signing you up. "We don't believe there's any further danger to the surrounding neighborhoods," Cohoon said during the first press conference that officials held at 5 p.m. During a second press conference later Saturday, the district attorney confirmed there was not an ongoing threat. There was an error, please provide a valid email address. Court documents were not readily available for her case Friday afternoon. There was a confrontation between two men inside a store and one of the men shot the other, according to authorities. The suspect allegedly approached the victim, pulled out a. Jose Rodriguez, now 22, of Boston, pleaded guilty to punching a woman during an altercation in a store and firing a gun six times in the thick of the mall. Kokoros commended Braintree officers as well as police from surrounding communities for responding so quickly and professionally to the chaotic scene. Shoppers who were inside the plaza when the shooting took place recalled the panic they felt as they raced to get outside. Igor Mangushev, a Russian mercenary and propagandist, who months ago staged a gruesome stunt in which he brandished the skull allegedly of oneof the fallen Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal, has been shot in the head, Ukrainian journalist Denys Kazanskyi reported . All rights reserved, MBTA Says Human Error' Is Focus of Investigation After Woman Killed in Train Collision, Elderly Woman Stabbed in Hamilton, Suspect in Custody, Even After Investigation, Stoneham Cop Hasn't Paid Dime of Rent to New Landlord, Power Lines Crash Onto Cars, Trucks for Blocks in Stoneham; Cause Unknown, Rescuers Capture Bald Eagle Believed to Be Critically Sickened by Rat Poison, Tracking the Next Hit of Wintry Weather Headed to New England, Due Late Week. The Montreal police answered a few calls (in the past) for mental health (issues) related to this guy, Bilodeau said. "The shooter ranand this defendant followed," Yas said at Schwartz's arraignment. If it really was random, just for fun, then I dont see how we can walk around the city and feel safe. A15-year-old bystander was hurt in a 2020 shooting, and in 2017 members of rival gangs happened to bump into each other in Macy's shoe department. Hammond-Desir, who authorities have said lives in Maynard, was caught in Bostons Dorchester neighborhood, Braintree police and the Norfolk district attorneys office said in a statement Wednesday. State and local police responded . Police and prosecutors on Friday asked the public for help finding the teenager wanted for murder in connection with a recent shooting at South Shore Plaza in Braintree.. Dijoun Beasley, 26, of Dorchester, was shopping at the mall, when authorities say Julius Hammond-Desir, 19, of Maynard, shot him. State and local police responded to a call of shots fired with a person down at South Shore Plaza around 3 p.m., Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey said during a second press conference Saturday night. ", New: This video shows the chaos inside South Shore Plaza following gunfire this afternoon. It was at least the second shooting to occur at the mall within the past two years. He was sentenced to eight years in prison and three years of probation. 1:38. Kokoros and Dubois said issues at the mall strainthe town's police force. This is not the first incident that we've had at the mall, the last being July 3, 2020," he said. He, too, had been shot at least once in the upper body and was also declared dead at the scene. Sources said investigators have strong leads for who shot Beasley. Police said the incident occurred when a male suspect approached the man inside a store in the mall and brandished a firearm and fired. Investigators are asking anyone with information about the shooting to call Braintree police at 781-794-8620 or Massachusetts State Police at 781-830-4990. Two of the victims died. Beasley was rushed to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries on Monday. Darrell Holmes, a St-Laurent resident who lives near the Motel Pierre, said he decided to take an Uber to work Wednesday night because he feared for his life after hearing media reports that victims were being shot at random, including Andr Lemieux, who was shot in St-Laurent. The violence began Jan. 13 with the shooting of Amir Beneyad, 17, in Plateau-Mont-Royal. Police said the suspect now identified as Hammond-Desir pulled out a gun on the first floor of the shopping center at about 3 p.m. that day, and shot Beasley before running off. BRAINTREE (CBS) -- A man who was shot inside the South Shore Plaza on Saturday has died, the Norfolk District Attorney's Office announced Monday. BRAINTREE (CBS) The South Shore Plaza in Braintree closed Saturday afternoon after a 26-year-old Boston man was shot inside. Stay up to date with everything Boston. Search for suspect in South Shore Plaza shooting continues in Braintree. Tips can also be emailed to. We should not have gunshots being fired while people are out shopping and enjoying a Saturday.. Montreal police secured the area around Motel Pierre, where a homicide suspected was gunned down by police Aug. 4, 2022. In court, Assistant District Attorney Anne Yas said Hammond-Desir spent time in Randolph and New Bedford while evading police. The prosecutor asked Judge Maurice Flynn at the Friday morning arraignment to impose a $200,000 cash bail and to have her subject to GPS monitoring if she were to post bail, Morrissey said. He is in "serious, very grave condition," Morrissey said. , RI reports $1.6M in back pay recovered since 2020, Prosecutor who charged Alahverdian buys UK castle, Whos in the mix to replace Congressman Cicilline, New NCAA president says NIL rules could protect athletes, Bryant loses at buzzer to Maine, drops to No. Kokoros also said the mall agreed to increase the number of Braintree police officers stationed at the South Shore Plaza from two officers and a supervisor to four and a supervisor. BRAINTREE, MASS. In March this year, the tribunal reviewed its decision and allowed Shaikh to continue residing outside the institution. Get the Android Weather app from Google Play, Community Focus: Providence Mayor Brett Smiley, Ukraine native in RI believes war is far from over, Peoples Savings Bank building bought for $2.2M, PC Friars, Xavier to battle for 2nd in Big East, Olive oil in coffee? According to Braintree Deputy Chief Tim Cohoon, there was an "encounter" between two men inside a store on the first floor of the mall. So obviously we're interested in people who have may been in that portion of the plaza and or the parking garages.". The second victim was Mohamed Salah Belhaj, 48, killed a few kilometres northeast of the first shooting, at an intersection near St-Benoit Park in the Ahuntsic district around 10:50 p.m. Those inside the mall said there were calls to evacuate the building as soon as the shooting took place. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. She said Schwartzsent someone to her home on Forest Street in Attleboro in the middle of the night to pick up her car in an effort not to tip off investigators to her location. BRAINTREE, MA The owner of the South Shore Plaza pledged to improve security at the Braintree mall following a fatal shooting on Jan. 22. "It's a place that people should be able to go and shop safely, and we should not have gunshots being fired while people are out shopping and enjoying their Saturday.". Julius Hammond-Desir, 19, was arrested in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood by Braintree, Boston and Massachusetts State Police, the Norfolk District Attorney's Office said. She then dropped out of sight and lefther two children in the care of others, Yas said. An Attleboro woman, Samantha Schwartz, accused of being an accessory-after-the-fact to the murder pled not guilty to the charges in her arraignment at Quincy District Court Friday morning, officials said. BRAINTREE, Mass. To request removal of your name from an arrest report, submit these required items to arrestreports@patch.com. Schwartz told her friend that the encounter started because Beasley thoughtHammond-Desir was staring at him. Anyone who has any information regarding the incident is asked to contact the Braintree Police Department by calling (781) 794-8620 or the Massachusetts State Police at (781) 830-4990. 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Braintree Police Deputy Chief Tim Cohoon said there was "an encounter in one of the stores" at around 3 p.m. , RI reports $1.6M in back pay recovered since 2020, Prosecutor who charged Alahverdian buys UK castle, Whos in the mix to replace Congressman Cicilline, New NCAA president says NIL rules could protect athletes, Bryant loses at buzzer to Maine, drops to No. The young woman said she had checked out as planned and was heading back to France. The mayor said video surveillance at the mall is "a little bit behind the times." 2023 www.patriotledger.com. No one was hurt in that incident. This was the third shooting in five years at the mall. Authorities announced Wednesday morning that they have arrested a Maynard man wanted for murder nearly a month after the shooting death of another man inside the South Shore Plaza in Braintree, Massachusetts. (WHDH) - The man who is accused of firing a gun inside South Shore Plaza is now formally facing several charges. Montreal police major crimes investigators realized within hours that the shootings were related and, at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Laval police answering a gunshot call found the third victim, Alexis Levis-Crevier, 22, shot dead on Clermont Blvd.