He approached her with what appeared to be a firearm. The woman fought him off. Turned out, it was a toy gun -- she thought it was a toy gun -- and they had a struggle in the street. He tried grabbing her. She screamed for help and a Harvard University employee came to her assistance, called police. |
He's been lying from the minute we started talking to him. Him leaving with the johnnie just added to the fact. We can't lock someone up for being shot. |
His story started falling apart after we started talking to him. It was strange from the beginning. |
It was a strange turn of events. It could have been somebody else doing it for him. |
Nobody was moving along. We're lucky we have Mace because it is a somewhat easy way to move a crowd along. As much as nobody wants to hear it, it's a part of police work. |
Originally it looked like she had a fractured leg. |
Someone threw a substance on the street that caught on fire. |
The most bothersome thing is that [Simmons] made up this story. Who knows what would have happened if we had stopped someone fitting the description? |
There was something in his belt buckle ? a bullet or a fragment. |
Until we make an arrest, there is no way of knowing the answers to some of these questions. |
We evacuated neighbors for safety precautions for threats he was making. |
We're talking to anyone that worked with him -- family, friends, anyone that can help us out. |
You can see how [Tuesday's] shooting turned into an arrest because witnesses were willing to share their information. In the Corey Davis one, there were witnesses, but they need to come forward and provide information. |