Early morning argument in the Leather District ends with car-to-car gunfire and one arrest, police say

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury antheral pursuing a bid of incidents that started with an statement connected Lincoln Street adjacent Beach Street aboriginal Saturday.

Police accidental officers responded to Lincoln Street astir 2:20 a.m. to find astir 30 radical "causing a disturbance."

As Officers began to disperse the group, 2 groups of individuals could beryllium seen arguing with 1 different extracurricular of their grey vehicles. Officers were yet capable to abstracted some parties and region them from the area. The groups returned to their vehicles and the officers began walking backmost to their cruisers.

While walking backmost to their cruisers, Officers heard 8 (8) to 10 (10) gunshots. As Officers ran to the dependable of the gunfire, they observed 2 grey sedans driving connected Kingston Street and entering onto I-93 North. Officers simultaneously broadcasted this accusation to responding units and to the Massachusetts State Police on with the licence sheet accusation of the vehicle. Additional responding units located ballistic evidence, arsenic good arsenic ballistic harm to a gathering successful the country of Kingston Street and Bedford Street.

Police accidental a authorities trooper recovered and stopped 1 of the cars connected the Mass. Ave. Connector. Arriving BPD officers recovered the car had been shot. They besides recovered that occupant Leon Edmonds, 23, of Roxbury, was carrying a Taurus 9-mm weapon loaded with six bullets.

Edmunds was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a large-capacity feeding device, constabulary say.

Innocent, etc.