Alleged Cambridge gunman was released from psychiatric hospital 3 days before shooting
WBUR • • nation
Key Points:
- Tyler E. Brown, charged with a chaotic shooting on Memorial Drive in Cambridge that injured two people seriously, had been released from a psychiatric hospital just three days prior to the incident, according to a state police report.
- Brown fired at least 60 rounds erratically into cars and at passersby after telling his parole officer less than an hour earlier that “these people are gonna f---ing pay,” though he did not specify targets.
- Brown has a violent history, including a 2020 conviction for shooting at Boston police officers while on probation for a 2014 assault conviction, and was on parole after his release from prison in May 2023.
- The shooting ended when Brown was confronted and shot in the extremities by a state trooper and a former Marine legally carrying a firearm; two men, including an MBTA driver and a DoorDash driver, were hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
- Criticism has arisen over Brown’s previous prison sentence, with the Boston Police Patrolmen's Union calling the 2020 sentence a "ball drop" and an insult to law enforcement due to perceived judicial leniency.