Woman shot and wounded, suspect arrested after standoff in Danvers
DANVERS - A man has been arrested after a woman was shot at a mobile home park off Route 1 in Danvers Monday afternoon. The suspect also allegedly fired at officers who responded.
The Essex County District Attorney identified the suspect as 62-year-old Joseph Hurley.
Investigators said they received a 911 call from a woman who had been shot multiple times and escaped to a neighbor's trailer on Newbury Street.
As officers approached the trailers, the suspect allegedly fired several rounds out the window towards officers. Troopers shut down Route 1 for several hours.
"Male suspect is believed barricaded inside a trailer. A female shooting victim has been transported to a hospital. This is an ongoing situation; (the) public is asked to avoid the area," State Police said in a statement.
SWAT teams filled the trailer park before breaking the man's window and flying a drone near it.
Video from WBZ-TV's helicopter showed police leading the handcuffed suspect onto a stretcher and into a waiting ambulance.
The victim was taken out of a window of a trailer by police officers. She was taken to Beverly Hospital and later med-flighted to a Boston hospital. She is in critical but stable condition.
Police were still processing the trailers Monday night.
"It's kind of scary. Trailers are like aluminum cans. If they fire a shot it's going to go through like six of them. I'm glad I wasn't there," neighbor James Julian said.
But Julian said he could have seen this coming. "He's crazy. He's been in and out of jail for all of his life," Julian told WBZ.
Another neighbor who sheltered during the standoff feared something like this was coming. "I suspected a while back that something was going to develop out of them two, but I just didn't know it would come to anything like this because I don't know how he would've gotten ahold of a gun," neighbor Dave Zagranio said.
Hurley is being charged with armed assault with intent to murder, three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition. He is expected to be arraigned in Salem District Court on Tuesday.
