"Police recover gun in Dorchester pool table" by John R. Ellement | Globe Staff October 10, 2014
Just before midnight Thursday, Boston police started looking for the source of a gunshot that echoed along Bradlee Street in Dorchester. Their search ended in the basement of a home where five people were gathered around a pool table – and a .22-caliber pistol was found inside one of the pockets.
According to police, officers responded to the neighborhood at 11:53 p.m. to investigate a single gunshot captured by the Shotspotter system. While searching the backyard of one house near where the gunshot detection system had pinpointed the source of the sound, police heard voices coming from the basement, prompting officers to go to the front door and ask for permission to search.
At the front door, the homeowner told police she was home alone. But officers, concerned for her safety, asked for and were given permission to search the home, said Boston police spokesman Sergeant Michael McCarthy.
In the basement, police found the five people loosely gathered near a pool table. Police discovered a .22-caliber pistol stashed in one of the pockets, police said. Inside the gun, police found one spent round and one live round, McCarthy said.
One man, 30-year-old Kevin Fulghan of Mattapan, was taken into custody when police learned there an active arrest warrant for him from Quincy District Court, McCarthy said. The four other people, including a 14-year-old boy, were released.
No one was charged with possession of the gun, but the investigation is continuing.
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