The Associated Press
QUINCY, Mass. (AP) -- A Boston police officer was shot Friday morning while attempting to serve a warrant to a Quincy man, who then barricaded himself inside an attic crawl space in a three hour standoff with police, authorities said.
Horacio Mays, 27, surrendered to police around 9:15 a.m. Friday, according to Boston Police Superintendent Robert Dunford.
Officers from the Boston Youth Violence Task Force and Quincy police tried to serve a warrant to Mays at 263 West St., but his pregnant wife, another woman and two children told them he wasn’t there.
Police began to search the house, and discovered signs that Mays was in the attic.
“When the officers went to clear the attic crawl space, that’s when the shooting took place,” Dunford said.
The officer, who was not identified, was hit at least twice, in the wrist and jaw. He had surgery at Boston Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition Friday and expected to recover, said acting Boston Police Commissioner James Hussey.
The shooting was followed by a three-hour standoff, during which police turned off the heat in the house while negotiating with Mays, the Patriot Ledger of Quincy reported. The temperature in Quincy Friday morning was near zero.
Mays was wanted for assault with a firearm in Boston after firing several errant shots at a man he was having a dispute with in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood on July 28, according to David Procopio, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorneys office.
He was freed on $2,500 cash bail in October and skipped his next court appearance in November. Prosecutors were set to ask a judge to send Mays to prison for violating his probation on a prior assault and battery and drug case.
Mays didn’t live at the West Street address, but investigators learned in recent days that he was staying there, Procopio said.
He was to appear on the warrant at a Suffolk County court Friday, then face arraignment in the Quincy shooting early next week, Traub said.