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Maine man charged with separate shootings in 2 Mass. towns, including one of pregnant woman
Authorities allege Anthony A. Delman shot a pregnant woman in Carver before turning the gun on his own cousin in Dennis hours later.
A Maine man is facing charges after police allege he shot a pregnant woman at a pond in Carver last week before turning the gun on his cousin outside a sports bar in Dennis just hours later.
Anthony A. Delman, 37, of Fryeburg, allegedly shot the woman — whom he’d previously dated — as she drove away from Sampson Pond on Aug. 13, according to police reports filed in court.
Carver police said the woman walked into the town’s police station around 7:37 p.m. to report that her car had been broken into, and that she might have been shot in the hip. She showed an officer a wound “consistent with a bullet hole” and was taken to South Shore Hospital in Weymouth with injuries that were not life-threatening, according to police.
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An officer also noticed two bullet holes in the woman’s car, “one in the driver’s side door and another protruding out from the roof of the passenger’s side,” according to police reports. The bullet that tore through the roof appeared to have been fired inside the car, and police said officers found a shell casing on the passenger side floor.
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According to police reports, surveillance footage showed Delman sitting in the passenger seat earlier in the day. The woman purportedly told investigators she’d spoken with Delman’s cousin on FaceTime and had been “asking if not begging” for him to come pick up Delman.
After Delman’s cousin gave him a ride from Carver to Dennis, Delman allegedly shot him in the leg outside Buncey’s Pizza & Sports Cafe.
A Dennis officer responded to Buncey’s around 9 p.m. on Aug. 13 after the restaurant’s owner reported hearing “a loud bang and a male screaming as if he had been hurt,” police said. While Delman’s cousin initially told police he had never seen the shooter before, he allegedly changed his story when investigators later approached him outside a local convenience store and asked him who was responsible.
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“He responded ‘you guys already know,’” according to a police report. “It was my cousin.”
Delman’s cousin purportedly told officials Delman “has mental health issues and is ‘crazy,’” according to police reports. He also alleged Delman had pointed a gun at his own head and threatened to kill himself before shooting the cousin when told to stop.
Delman was arrested the following morning after an officer spotted him coming out of a nearby wooded area and making “a stretching motion with his arms extended over his head as if he had just woken up,” per a police report.
Delman “was covered in scratches on his arms, legs and face, as if he had been running through the woods and various pricker bushes,” police noted. He allegedly told officers that two masked men shot at his cousin’s car outside Buncey’s, and that he had taken off running to get away.
Delman has pleaded not guilty to several charges in connection with the Dennis shooting, including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury and various firearms offenses. He was ordered held following a dangerousness hearing and is due back in court Sept. 15.
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Delman’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Carver police said Delman will be arraigned in connection with the Sampson Pond shooting at a later date. He faces additional charges of armed assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a pregnant victim, among other counts.
Police said Delman has a lengthy criminal history consisting of 31 arraignments on his adult record.
“This case was an excellent example of good, solid police work and cooperation between agencies, which has resulted in the arrest of a violent person willing to shoot a pregnant woman,” Carver Police Chief Marc Duphily said in a statement.
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