A community drop-in for residents shaken by Monday’s shootout on Memorial Drive in Cambridge is planned for Friday by state representative Marjorie Decker and mayor Sumbul Sidddiqui, and a community debrief is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender St., Riverside.
Elected officials, police, Cambridge Public Health and the Riverside Trauma Center will be on hand at the debrief to answer questions and address concerns, state representative Mike Connolly said Friday.
The community drop-in will be different: “This will be an informal, welcoming space for anyone who would like to talk, reflect, ask questions or simply be in community with neighbors. All are welcome,” Decker said in a Thursday email. Staff from the Cambridge Department of Public Health will be present to meet with residents, offer support and help connect community members with available resources, according to the email.
The 4 to 6 p.m. Friday drop-in is at Riverside Pizza and Seafood, 305 River St., Riverside, Cambridge.
The drop-in and briefing follow a Wednesday vigil organized by Cambridge Democratic Socialists of America at Cambridge City Hall. There, Connolly talked about the two men who were shot Monday and are hospitalized and in critical condition. One is a 35-year-old Cantabrigian who works as a delivery driver and was on the way to a car wash. The other is an MBTA Ride driver who was reportedly shot in the head and managed to drive himself to the hospital, Connolly said.
“As one person said at Wednesday’s vigil, ‘This was a mass shooting.’ Miraculously, no lives were lost. But hundreds of people were sent running from up to 70 rounds of gunfire,” Connolly said. An emotionally disturbed parolee name Tyler Brown is the suspect in the incident.
Connolly said he spoke about the Monday gun battle with Middlesex district attorney Marian Ryan, who “told me when she first arrived on the scene, it looked like something out of a war zone. Had Brown been active for another few minutes, he might have fired another 100 rounds. That gun was so powerful, it could have actually struck people on the other side of the Charles River in Boston.”
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