Swampscott Police investigate shooting

SWAMPSCOTT – Police are asking the public to come forward with any helpful information concerning shots fired in the area of Cherry and Buena Vista streets Wednesday night.Swampscott Police Sgt. Tim Cassidy said the incident was the fourth in the town that involved guns within just more than a month.”Not good,” he wrote in a text message.Police also reported they would be filing additional drugs and weapons-related charges against the defendant in an incident involving a firearm that occurred Tuesday night.In the most recent incident, Swampscott Police reported responding to a home on Buena Vista Street Thursday after a resident reported finding a bullet among the broken glass of his sliding glass door. The resident said he had heard a noise outside the door at around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and found the door broken, but found the bullet Thursday.Police also reported finding bullet holes on nearby Cherry Street; these included two bullet holes in the side of 36 Cherry St. and two bullet holes in a vehicle parked in front of 54 Cherry St.Police also reported finding a spent shell casing on the ground in the area.Cassidy said nobody was hurt in the incident, which remains under investigation by Swampscott Police and the Massachusetts State Police ballistic unit.Police also responded to a report of shots fired Tuesday night on Pine Street. The alleged victim reported that his roommate had shot out the alleged victim’s car window as the alleged victim sat inside. But further investigation suggests the suspect smashed the window with the butt end of a .38 caliber handgun found at the scene. Police said the gun had all six rounds still unfired, according to Cassidy.Allen Chandler, 32, of 6 Sawyer Ave. #1, Dorchester, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to nighttime felony breaking and entering of a motor vehicle; possession of ammunition without a firearms identification card; possession of a firearm without a firearms identification card; assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; and violation of a town knife ordinance.Lynn District Court Judge Ellen Flatley Wednesday ordered Chandler held on $2,500 cash bail and scheduled him to return to court Dec. 16.Police also reported recovering several gun cases in plain view of the suspect’s vehicle, however. A subsequent search of the vehicle revealed 26 grams of suspected crack cocaine and a scale and baggies used to package drugs, Cassidy reported in a press release.”Chandler will be facing several more drug-related charges, along with additional ammunition charges,” police said in the press release.Anybody with information about the latest incident to call Swampscott Police Detectives at 781-595-1111.