A foul-mouthed taking pictures suspect is on the run and needed by police after he opened hearth outdoors the North End’s iconic Modern Pastry store leaving a bullet gap within the entrance window.
Patrick Mendoza, 54, is known as in police stories because the suspected shooter who allegedly fired at a person who “dove behind a parked vehicle” simply outdoors the favored cannoli cafe escaping harm Wednesday evening.
“Mendoza should be considered armed and dangerous. Anyone that comes into contact with him should call 911 immediately,” police mentioned.
Modern, a vacationer and native go-to pastry cease alongside Hanover Street the place it stays locked in perpetual competitors with Mike’s Pastry a couple of busy blocks away, is working sweetly as traditional, they report.
The scene was hotter the evening in query, round 11 p.m., when the police report a suspect recognized as Mendoza fired “three shots” and fled “on a bike with the handgun still in hand towards Cross St.” The police report provides a witness noticed “a skinny white male in his 40s that looked homeless, riding a dark color bike heading towards the Greenway.”
That course can be out of the North End and into the Faneuil Hall space the place he might simply head over the bridge or towards Chinatown and even the Seaport — relying on his escape route.
The man police mentioned narrowly averted being wounded informed them that he was standing in entrance on the Modern Pastry store at about 10:30 p.m. when the suspect approached on a motorcycle and “began swearing and yelling at him, calling him (expletive) face.” More harsh phrases had been exchanged, however are redacted, and the suspect “dropped the bike on the street and reached behind his waist, pulling a FIREARM.”
The alleged sufferer shortly bolted down the road hiding behind a “jeep that was parked” on Hanover Street, the police report states.
Mendoza, police add, “discharged the firearm two times in his direction … (with the bullets) narrowly” lacking him however left a bullet gap within the “front window of Modern Pastry.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”