A person showing in Dedham District Court docket for a probation violation listening to sprinted exterior and onto the busy road the place Karen Learn supporters waited for a verdict, a scene {that a} state trooper described because the “most bizarre spectacle.”
The trooper’s feedback got here moments after police arrested Quarri Tyree Queen, effectively over a block away from the courtroom he took off from when the court docket ordered custody of him.
Queen, who current data present dwelling in Mattapan, is being held with out bail pending sentencing on July 15, in accordance with court docket paperwork.
“This is the most bizarre spectacle,” a state trooper exterior Norfolk County Superior Court docket was overheard saying, moments after police chased Queen down and took him into custody.
A witness standing alongside the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds instructed the Herald that she noticed Queen leap over a wall in entrance of the constructing earlier than he ran throughout Ames Avenue, a highway that intersects with Excessive Avenue.
Queen then appeared to second guess leaping over a fence behind the Dedham Group Home as kids had been exterior enjoying, so he proceeded down Ames Avenue the place police finally chased him down and took him into custody, the witness mentioned.
“We thought something wasn’t right, but not scared,” the girl mentioned.
A person she was with added, “I thought he was just trying to beat the light. He picked the wrong day to run from the courthouse. There were 50 cops in the area.”
One other witness, carrying a ‘Free Karen Read’ shirt, mentioned: “I was just walking down the street waiting for my girlfriend to come back, so I was standing on a sidewalk waiting, and then all of a sudden someone comes bombing by me, almost knocked me over, and I jokingly said out loud to myself, ‘Jesus, did you just rob somebody or commit a crime?’”
Queen was showing for 2 violations, one in connection to an alcohol-monitoring bracelet and the opposite for contacting a sufferer, court docket papers point out.
Queen was arrested in August 2021 for an “assault and battery on a family member,” in accordance with data. He then violated a probation order in Could.
The heavy police presence on Excessive and Ames streets in Dedham grew to become a commonality because the jury within the Karen Learn homicide trial tried to achieve a verdict over the previous week earlier than Choose Beverly Cannone declared a mistrial Monday afternoon.
Police stayed comparatively quiet all through the deliberations, exterior of a quick conflict between Learn’s pink-wearing supporters and blue-clad detractors on Friday. That modified round midday Monday, with Queen prompting the frantic foot pursuit, leaving some media, Learn supporters, and others puzzled about what precisely occurred.
“It makes no sense to run. Why run? It’s summertime, everyone wants to be outside,” mentioned a person contained in the courtroom when Queen sprinted out.
