A 25-year-old man who was the subject of what Boston police dubbed an “extensive fugitive investigation” in connection with a shooting in Dorchester last September that left five people hurt, including a young autistic girl, was arrested Wednesday.
Micah Ennis was located at 33 Ellingwood St. in Roxbury, and was arrested as he attempted to flee from the rear of the building, Boston Police said in a statement. Ennis was wanted on a warrant issued out of Suffolk Superior Court charging him with five counts of armed assault with intent to murder, and a single charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.
Ennis will be arraigned on the charges in Suffolk Superior Court on Thursday, police said.
The shooting took place on Sept. 17, 2023, in the Franklin Field Projects in Dorchester, according to the statement.
Another man, Gianni Johnson, of Dorchester, was arrested in connection with the shooting in October 2023.
In all, five people were wounded in the shooting, leaving a child with life-threatening injuries.
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said the shooting should serve as a uniting force for the city against violence.
“The brutality of sending bullets flying where people were gathered and children were playing should shock and outrage all of us and should unite us — and I mean all of us, from every community and every sector and every level of society — against the glut of illegal guns in our city and the people so willing to use them. We need to recognize and treat gun violence as a societal epidemic,” Hayden said in a statement. “How else can we describe a brother and sister shot while playing outside their home on a warm late-summer evening?”
