She was hopeful he would be committed to a mental health institution under Massachusetts law’s Section 12 at the end of the standoff. I mean today he is literally screaming for help.” “I just hope to God this will get him some help. “Ever since then he’s been rebelling and going downhill,” Jones-Butler said. She said her brother had been homeless for three or four years and had struggled with mental health issues since the deaths of his mother and brother. Through the course of the standoff Tuesday, the gunman could be seen pacing back and forth across the field, sporadically waving what appeared to be a handgun in the air.Ī woman who identified herself as the gunman’s half-sister, Lashena Jones-Butler, waited behind a line of police tape on Albany Street, at times screaming for her brother to calm down. The peaceful resolution capped a dramatic day that drew scores of law enforcement, closed some streets, and evacuated an apartment building on Harrison Avenue. “When someone has a firearm in their hand and no one gets injured, that’s a win,” he said.
I’ll tell you, it’s the training that they all go through - it was on full display here today,” Long said. You’re doing everything you can to bring a situation to a peaceful ending. “It was taxing on our hostage negotiators as well as our SWAT teams. With patience, time, and restraint … this reached a peaceful ending,” Long said. Long praised the work of law enforcement officers who responded to the scene. The suspect accepted food and water throughout the day, Long said. Police officers, SWAT team members, and hostage negotiators maintained a dialogue with the suspect throughout the standoff. The officers stopped the man, who then ran onto the turf field, Boyle said. Officers on patrol spotted the suspect, who was wanted on a warrant charging him with armed robbery. No police officers were injured in the incident, which started at 9:41 a.m., Boyle said. The man was taken by Boston EMS to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The suspect then dropped his firearm and was taken into custody. “The suspect was also struck by less lethal rounds” of ammunition than bullets, Long said during a press conference. The suspect was apprehended after police used “distractionary devices” to subdue him, Acting Boston Police Commissioner Gregory Long said.
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