A suspect has been arrested in connection with the shootings at Revere Beach on Memorial Day weekend, the Suffolk District Attorney's Office said Thursday afternoon.
Revere police said Dashawn Teleau, 19, of Malden, has been charged in connection with a shooting near Centennial Avenue and Dehon Street that left a 17-year-old girl injured. He is charged with assault and battery with a firearm, carrying a loaded firearm, possession of ammunition without an FID card and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, and expected to be arraigned in Chelsea District Court Thursday afternoon.
The incident was caught on camera. The video shows a large group fighting before a man wearing gray Nike shorts pulls a black gun from hit pocket and fires multiple shots into the crowd.
The victim, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, identified Teleau out of a photo array. She told investigators she was at the beach with friends when a fight broke out, and at first she tried to calm the situation. Just before the shooting she realized several of the people in the group had guns, which was when screamed for her friends to get away.
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Two other people - a 51-year-old woman and a boy who was grazed by a bullet - were also hurt in a shooting later that day during a brawl near a bathhouse, police said. All of the victims were expected to survive.
Several massive fights broke out at the beach that day. Video shows a man opening fire on a crowd in one of the shootings.
A teenager was previously arrested on gun charges.
Local leaders have condemned the shootings.
"The type of violence we saw over the weekend will absolutely not be tolerated in our community," Patrick Keefe, Revere's acting mayor, said in a statement. "We are actively working with public safety partners to ensure a family friendly environment at America's first public beach."
After the shootings, state police increased patrols around Revere Beach on Memorial Day. Some beachgoers said the troopers should stick around at Boston area beaches all summer to help cool tensions.
NBC10 Boston's Darren Botelho and Kaitlin McKinley Becker contributed to this report.
