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| Location on Herbert Street where the taxi cab hit a building. ~Photo by Bobbie Toner |
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By Jeremy F. van der Heiden
It
has been a wild week for the City of Somerville; scattered miseries,
mysteries and even brief hopeful glances of change for the better in
the future. Since last Wednesday, the city has experienced events
ranging from the re-opening of Tylenol Killer case, to a bank robbery
on West Fellsway, the extension of the Green Line to Route 16, the
closing of inpatient facilities at the Somerville Hospital, the visit
by Tony Blair to Tufts University, and of course the unveiling of a new
budget team assembled by Mayor Curtatone. None may be as strange and
seemingly cinematic as what happened on Herbert St., right behind Davis
Square, on Sunday morning.
According to Somerville authorities,
at around 2am, a man suffered a non-lethal gunshot wound to the leg on
the corner of Chester and Elm Streets in Davis Square, and what
transpired next could be the basis for an action sequence in the next
Quentin Tarantino film. The shooting victim allegedly proceeded to run
down the street, assault a cab driver and hop into the driver's seat,
speed down Chester Street and turn onto Herbert Street, where the
shooting victim allegedly drove up onto the sidewalk to strike the man
who he alleged to be the shooter with the hijacked cab, succeeded in
doing so and then crashed the car into the wall of a building on the
street, all the while with two passengers still in the back seat of the
cab.
When the authorities arrived on the scene, they found the
gunshot victim, the cab attack victim and the cab driver, but no gun
and neither of the two passengers that were in the cab when it was used
to hit the alleged shooter. Both men were brought to a local hospital
where they were treated for non-life threatening injuries. As a follow
up to the investigation, the authorities took the gunshot victim into
custody shortly after his release from the hospital. He was identified
as Marcel Laurol, a 32 year-old male from Malden. The other man, a 25
year-old male from Brockton, has not been identified or arrested as of
yet.
Laurol was arraigned on Monday morning in the Somerville
District Court for charges that include carjacking, two counts of
kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (the cab),
operating a motor vehicle with a revoked license and reckless operation
of a motor vehicle.
Laurol was released by the Court after the
arraignment on Monday, by way of personal recognizance by the Judge
assigned to the case, with an order to stay away from all of the
victims and witnesses of the case.
The Somerville Police are
looking for any information on this incident from any witnesses,
especially the passengers who were in the taxicab at the time of the
carjacking. If you have any information please call the Somerville
Detectives at (617) 625 – 1600, ext. 7235. Keep your eyes and ears open
Somerville, who knows what will happen next.
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