Suspect arrested in N.J. eyed in Route 1 double-shooting

Item Staff ReportLYNNFIELD – Chelsea man arrested in New Jersey Friday for allegedly assaulting a woman at knifepoint late last month is also under suspicion for a double -shooting April 30 at The Fat Cactus restaurant on Route 1 in Lynnfield, Massachusetts State Police and prosecutors said.Bayron Fajardo, aka Bayron Fajardo-Montoya, 31, was arrested in Irvington, N.J., Friday by the New Jersey State Police Fugitive Unit and the New Jersey State Police Metro Unit North on a Chelsea District Court warrant charging him with kidnapping, assault with intent to rape, rape, and violating a restraining order.Fajardo is charged with forcing a 27-year-old woman whom he knew into a Broadway, Chelsea, building on the afternoon of April 22. At the time of the incident, the woman had a restraining order against him. Armed with a knife, authorities say, Fajardo held the woman against her will and sexually assaulted her.Fajardo’s arrest came amid an ongoing investigation by Troopers assigned to the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section, the Essex District Attorney’s office, and the Suffolk District Attorney’s office, as well as the police departments of Chelsea and Lynnfield and New Jersey authorities. Fajardo is charged in New Jersey as a fugitive from justice.According to a State Police press release, Fajardo’s arraignment in Massachusetts has not yet been scheduled.Authorities continue to investigate Fajardo’s connection to an April 30 double-shooting outside The Fat Cactus restaurant located at 215 Broadway in Lynnfield. The victims in that incident survived their injuries.Shortly after 1 a.m. on April 30, the two victims, a male and female, were shot and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston with non-life threatening injuries.A witness at the scene told police that a Hispanic man was seeing fleeing the area in a blue Nissan Sentra and getting onto Route 1, immediately after the shooting.