SPD Officers Hear Gunshots, K9 Walker Locates Suspect with Illegal Loaded Firearm
SPD Officers Hear Gunshots, K9 Walker Locates Suspect with Illegal Loaded Firearm
Springfield, Mass. — On Thursday October 1st at approximately 7:15 p.m., Springfield Police Officers arrested 20-year-old Ja Quan Gray on 166 Dwight Road after hearing gunshots in the area of Dickinson Street.
Around 6:55 p.m., officers heard gunshots in the area of Dickinson Street and Sumner Avenue. There was also a ShotSpotter activation for the 300 block of Dickinson Street.
Officers located a suspect vehicle and attempted to conduct a traffic stop. The driver continued to attempt to evade police, struck an uninvolved vehicle and would eventually stop on the 600 block of North Main Street in East Longmeadow. The driver and passenger ran away from the vehicle.
Around 7:10 p.m., officers located a suspect who matched the description of the passenger who fled the vehicle on Dwight Road. The suspect, later identified as Ja Quan Gray, began running away, puling a firearm out as he ran. As officers searched the area, K9 Officer John Ruyffeleart and K9 Walker located the suspect, near the woods line on the 100 block of Dwight Road with a firearm underneath him.
The firearm was an AR Style rifle capable of holding 17 rounds of ammunition.
The driver of the vehicle remains at-large. A vehicle was struck on Alderman Street in connection with this shooting.
20-year-old Ja Quan Gray of Springfield is charged with:
- Carrying a Loaded Large Capacity Firearm on a Public Way
- Carrying a Firearm without a License
- Unlicensed Possession of an Assault Weapon
- Discharging a Firearm within 500 Feet of a Building
- Malicious Damage to a Motor Vehicle
