Overview
- A patron was fatally shot inside the Moonfish Restaurant on Route 28 in Dennis during a late Friday-night incident, local officials and the business owner said.
- Dennis police and the Cape and Islands district attorney’s office are investigating the killing while investigators processed the scene into early Saturday morning.
- One male suspect was taken into custody and is expected to appear in Orleans District Court on Monday morning, according to the district attorney’s spokesperson.
- Owner Velma Mitchell said the victim, a man in his 40s, had been served a drink shortly before multiple gunshots and she did not see who fired; about 30 people were in the restaurant when the shots rang out.
- The restaurant remains closed as staff hired a cleanup crew and the community awaits official releases on the suspect’s identity, motive, and formal charges from prosecutors.