By Gintautas Dumcius
Reporter Correspondent

Five consecutive gunshots last Friday drew cops from Codman Square's Safe Street team to Washington and Dunlap Streets and landed a 19-year-old Jamaica Plain resident in Dorchester District Court this week.

Omar Mohamed, of 45 Centre St., was charged with assault and battery, armed assault of two people, including one victim who was treated at Boston Medical Center for a gunshot wound to the shoulder, a drug violation, having a firearm without a license and discharging it 500 feet from a building. A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf.

His court-appointed attorney, Holly Clarke from the Committee on Public Counsel Services, said he is on "refugee status" here and his family situation is complicated, with his father in Buffalo.

Bail was set at $75,000, and he was detained on a probation matter. His next court date is Nov. 19.

At about 5:45 p.m. on Friday, police officers with the Safe Street Initiative heard gunshots, which were also heard in the courthouse, and ran after the suspect from the corner of Washington St. and Dunlap St.and down Whitfield St., where they were directed to the suspect crouching behind the rear deck of a residence talking into his Motorola cell phone, according to the police report.

The suspect was ordered to the pavement and dropped the cell phone and its battery. As officers were frisking him, they found the wooden handle of a .38 caliber nickel-plated revolver with five spent casings, smelling of gunpowder. The suspect started to struggle and was pinned to the ground, according to the report. Officers continued searching him and found 10 pieces of crack cocaine, individually wrapped in clear plastic.

He was also found with $182. A grey Red Sox hat and a black bandana were recovered from the scene of the crime at 517 Washington St.

Pair charged in high-speed chase on Blue Hill Ave.

A boyfriend and girlfriend were charged Monday in an early Sunday morning chase through Mattapan, ripping through a 30 miles per hour zone in their black Ford Explorer at 70 miles per hour, police say.

Anthony Day, 39, and Alisha Halliday, 35, were also charged with drug violations. Day was charged with two counts of assault and battery on a police officer. Pleas of not guilty were entered on their behalf in Dorchester District Court.

For Day, prosecutors pointed to numerous instances of state time served and defaults and drug offenses.

Jose Antonio Vincenty, Day's court-appointed attorney, old the court that Day spoke to him and said the defaults are "technical in nature" and also refuted the charges of assaulting a police officer. Vincenty said Day told him that officers grabbed him by the neck while he was trying to get to his girlfriend, Halliday.

Halliday's court-appointed attorney, Holly Clarke, said the drugs in the car could have been someone else's, since the car, which she owns, is not one she has "exclusive possession" of.

Bail was set at $50,000 for Day, while Halliday's was set at $5,000. Their next court date is Nov. 19.

At about 3 a.m. on Sunday, plainclothes officers were on patrol when they spotted the car going 70 miles per hour on Norfolk Street toward Blue Hill Avenue, crossing the double yellow line and nearly hitting a black Honda Civic before swerving back into the correct lane, according to the police report.

The car then took a left onto Blue Hill Avenue, where officers lost sight of it, before seeing it again stopped in front of 1444 Blue Hill Avenue. The car quickly reversed and drove onto the sidewalk. Two people left the car and went into the apartment building.

The car then peeled away down Blue Hill Ave. Other officers were notified to stop the car, which took a right onto Babson Street and again drove up on the sidewalk, finally stopping in front of 17 Babson St., about 200 yards away from the Mildred Avenue School.

Approaching officers spotted bottles of Heineken and Budweiser on the rear seats' floor, and arrested Day, who smelled of alcohol, according to the police report. Officers also found two plastic bags containing clusters of crack cocaine and a plastic bag full of multi-colored balloons in the glove compartment.

While getting booked at District Area B-3 station, Day allegedly became "extremely violent" towards officers, punching one in the chin and another in the lip and spitting on him, the report says.

Day's attorney, Vincenty, said Day maintains that he spit because he was being choked.

Murder trials stemming flood Suffolk Superior

Suffolk Superior Court was gearing up for a busy week, with the trial of one Dorchester murder in 2003 closing; pre-trial motions in a 2006 Dorchester slaying, with two 20-year-olds standing accused; prosecution testimony beginning in a Mattapan murder in 2004; and jury selection begins for the prosecution in the case of a Roxbury fatal shooting.

The trial of Linrose Woodbine, 31, came to a close on Tuesday. Woodbine is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Aston Dwayne Thompson, who was celebrating turning 28 outside his Wales Street apartment.

Separately, the prosecution's testimony started up in the trial of Anthony Davis, 25, who is accused of shooting a 23-year old at the intersection of Blue Hill Ave. and Landor Rd. in Mattapan in March 2004.

William Badgett and Darnell Ricks, Jr., both 20-years-old, got pre-trial motions. Badgett is charged with second-degree murder of the May 2006 murder of Louis DoSouto outside of a Hamilton Street party, and Ricks is accused of being an accessory, having allegedly urged him to "toss [the gun]."

Gintautas Dumcius covers court proceedings and law enforcement for the Reporter. He can be reached at gin.dumcius@gmail.com.

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