The shots heard at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Cambridge – unlike the ones two days earlier – had no known victim and led to an arrest the same day of Elias Reardon, 18, a city resident.
Reardon appeared in Cambridge District Court on Monday and was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, using a firearm within 500 feet of dwelling and possession of a firearm without a card indicating licensing. The investigation is ongoing, police spokesperson Robert Goulston said.
Update on Dec. 4, 2024: Two more arrests were made at 6 a.m., of one adult and one juvenile, Goulston said.
In the incident, police were told by a caller at 2:11 p.m. that a red sedan went up over a curb at New England Transmission at 372 Rindge Ave., North Cambridge, and two gunshots were heard. A second caller said a car hit and knocked down a light pole and drove off – yet police shortly afterward got a call from a driver of a red Lexus saying then on an MBTA Alewife Station access road saying they were the driver who hit at least one pole, according to scanner reports.
Meanwhile, video showed two people wearing hoodies running on Rindge Avenue and turning left on Clifton Street to head north toward Russell Field, according to scanner reports.
In this incident, Shotspotter technology did not hear the gunfire and alert police, according to scanner reports. It’s the second incident this week in which the system didn’t hear the gunfire.
Officers found evidence on Rindge of shots fired, though: at least two shell casings.
It’s the 12th gunfire incident of the year in Cambridge; two-thirds of them have been like Friday’s – without victims. This doubled the number of gunfire incidents from the previous year, though the 2023 incidents were the inverse in terms of victims and resulted in six shooting victims from four of the six times gunfire was reported.
This is the first gunfire reported in North Cambridge this year, though shots were heard in the Cambridge Highland, north of Fresh Pond, on May 4, leading to an arrest, police spokesperson Robert Goulston has said.
This post was updated Nov. 27 and Dec. 4, 2024, with arrest information.
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