Two Lynn men arraigned for paintball spree

LYNN-Two young Lynn men were arraigned in court Tuesday for allegedly taking part in a night of destruction involving paintball guns and BBs on city streets.Shimyer Jayfen Volquez, 18, of 11 South St. #2 and Ramer Soto, 19, of 16 Shepard St. #1 were arrested and charged with various assault and malicious destruction of property charges after an incident lasting over two hours on Sunday night. Two other youths, ages 16 and 17, will be summonsed to court.Police say the havoc began on Adams Street sometime around 8 p.m. when the teens were driving in one of the suspect’s brown Chevy Malibu and shooting BBs and paintballs toward people and cars.Before the night was over, two vehicles had their windows shattered and two pedestrians were hit by BBs.Officers first arrived on Adams Street and found two residents who reported their vehicles’ windows had been smashed out.One of the victims reported seeing a vehicle drive by Adams Street around 8 p.m. and again around 10 p.m. and suspected its occupants might have been involved.A group of teens were hanging out on the sidewalk during at least one of the attacks, police said.One witness, a 16-year-old girl, reported the suspects shot at her and her friends with a BB gun from the vehicle after they shot out the parked cars, according to police.All of the witnesses described either a gold or tan colored car.A short time later at the corner of Rockaway and Essex streets, police pulled over a vehicle matching the description given by witnesses.Police confiscated three paintball guns and five air tanks that were in plain view of the officers, police said.While officers were searching the vehicle, two more victims came forward claiming they were shot by a projectile.A man and a woman said they were walking down Essex Street only five minutes earlier when a Chevy Malibu shot objects, which they believed to be marbles, at them, according to police.Both said they were hit several times with the projectiles and the female complained of back pain, police said.Volquez’s arrest marked his second in as many months. On Oct. 4 around 3 p.m., he was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest during a confrontation with a female involving a large group of people on Shepard Street. Police said Volquez got out of a car and began screaming within inches of a woman’s face before being taken into custody. Police used pepper spray to arrest him.