Four teens charged in New Terrace Road shooting

Brookline police cruisers. Photo by Zoe Zekos

Four teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection with a Jan. 11 shooting on New Terrace Road which left another 18-year-old wounded.

Those arrested on Tuesday ranged from ages 16 to 18.

A 17-year-old Roslindale resident was charged with four counts of armed assault with the intent to murder and several other firearm offenses, according to Brookline police.

The 17-year-old was identified in records which were briefly available on the Brookline District Court website Tuesday before being removed. Brookline.News is not publishing his name because he is a minor. A representative of the court clerk’s office said that his case is being processed in juvenile court.

A 16-year-old Brookline resident, who was also not named by police, was charged with illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition, as well as being an accessory after the fact.

Thomas May, a Brookline 18-year-old, and Guilherme Leal De Britto Pereira, a Needham 18-year-old, were also arrested and charged with accessory after the fact. May was arraigned in Brookline District Court on Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty. Pereira has not yet been arraigned.

Brookline police did not provide any information about their role in the shooting.

The victim, an 18-year-old Newton resident who police have not named, was shot in the hip and treated at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Saturday, according to Brookline Police Deputy Superintendent Paul Campbell.

Brookline police began investigating after receiving multiple calls about possible shots fired in the area at around 1:25 a.m. on Saturday, according to Campbell.

When they arrived, they found shell casings on New Terrace Road, which runs through the Brookline Housing Authority’s High Street Veterans development.

“Our dispatchers called around to local hospitals and learned that a victim had walked into the [Brigham and Women’s Hospital] with a gunshot wound to the hip area,” Campbell said in an email to Brookline.News. “Officers responded to the hospital and confirmed that the victim had received his injuries from the New Terrace Road shooting.”

There was also a vehicle located at the hospital that “appeared to have ballistic rounds in it,” according to Campbell.

Vivi Smilgius contributed reporting. 

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