Overview
- Tyler E. Brown, 46, fired more than 60 rounds at cars on Memorial Drive on Monday, injuring two drivers before a state trooper and a former Marine shot and stopped him.
- Brown remains in police custody at a Boston hospital and faces two counts of armed assault with intent to murder, with a Thursday arraignment planned and one victim released from the hospital Tuesday, according to his family.
- Authorities say there is no known link between Brown and the victims, and investigators are interviewing hundreds of witnesses and reviewing video and ballistics evidence.
- Court paperwork says Brown was discharged from a psychiatric hospital on Friday, told his parole officer on Monday that he had relapsed and was suicidal, and was seen on FaceTime waving a rifle as police issued a bulletin and sought a welfare check.
- Brown’s record includes a 2014 assault case and a 2020 shootout with Boston police, and the case is prompting fresh scrutiny of his shorter 2021 sentence and how parole supervision responded to the warning signs.