"Lawrence police trying to determine motive behind shooting that left two men wounded" by John R. Ellement | Globe Staff, March 18, 2013
More than a dozen shots were fired in Lawrence early Sunday morning in front of a house where a birthday party earlier for a 7-year-old child had turned into a party for adults.
Police were trying to determine Monday if two men hospitalized with gunshot wounds after the incident are innocent victims or combatants.
“We’ve got more questions than answers,’’ Police Chief John Romero said in a telephone interview Monday.
According to Romero, when his officers were on the scene assisting one of the gunshot victims on Brook Street, officers heard more shots being fired. Officers raced around the corner and recovered a firearm and arrested one man in the illegal possession of a firearm.
Jose Rivera of Lawrence was charged with possession of a firearm without an identification card and carrying a firearm without a license, police said....
The chief said his officers also want to question another man who showed up at Lawrence General Hospital many hours after the shooting. That man had multiple gunshot wounds to his lower extremities. He is expected to recover, Romero said.
“If you are totally innocent, and if you are shot, why would you not just go to the hospital immediately?” Romero said....
Because you are an illegal immigrant?
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