A New Hampshire man is charged with pointing a gun at three folks seemingly at random, together with a 5-year-old woman, in Boston earlier this week.
Salvador Maldonado, 50, of Manchester, N.H., was charged Tuesday in municipal courtroom in Dorchester with three counts of assault with a harmful weapon. Choose Vanessa Velez revoked Maldonado’s bail on a separate case in Lowell and set a brand new bail of $1,500. Maldonado is due again in courtroom on Sept. 5.
The brown Sig Sauer MCX Boston Police say they discovered within the passenger seat of Maldonado’s blue Honda Pilot once they tracked him down following a number of citizen complaints is definitely an air rifle that fires pellets and never a daily firearm. However that reality was in all probability not identified by these he purportedly pointed it at on Monday.
“To be going about your daily routines and then see someone point a gun at you is a terribly frightening experience,” Suffolk District Lawyer Kevin Hayden stated in a press release. “I’m very proud of these victims for immediately contacting police and providing them solid identifying information. Their actions may have prevented a more dangerous outcome here.”
Maldonado’s first alleged sufferer was a mom and her 5-year-old daughter, who instructed police that they had stopped at a pink mild a little bit earlier than 7 p.m. on Corbet Road in Mattapan close to the Morton Village residences and regarded over to seek out her alleged assailant stopped subsequent to her. She instructed police, in accordance with a DA assertion, that he was pointing what she described as “a brown shotgun” straight at her and her daughter. She stated she fled and that Maldonado’s dark-colored car had an out-of-state plate.
As police spoke together with her, in accordance with the DA, one other name got here in a couple of man strolling round with a gun on Burt Road, roughly a mile away. Authorities say Maldonado popped off three pictures, pointed the gun on the caller after which left the realm in his Honda Pilot simply to be arrested with out incident.
