Charges upgraded to murder for Mass. person charged in connection with fatal shooting
Authorities have upgraded the charges of a Shrewsbury person previously arraigned in connection with a man's shooting death last week to include murder.
Snehal Srivastava , 26, was charged with murder on Tuesday, according to court records. They were previously charged with one count of armed assault to murder and two counts of carrying a firearm without a license.
They are scheduled to be arraigned on the murder charge on Sept. 12 at Westborough District Court, on the same day as their detention hearing for the other charges.
At around 8:47 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28, Shrewsbury police received two 911 calls about a shooting in the area of Edgewater Ave. near Jordan Pond in Shrewsbury, according to a police report. At that same time, the caller, Kevin Doherty, 56, told the police dispatcher he was being attacked before he was shot several times.
Doherty told the dispatcher, "He shot me," and the call was discontinued, police said.
Officers arrived to find Doherty and he was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where he was pronounced dead, police said in their report.
A witness told police that Srivastava and Doherty argued over a scooter before Srivastava took out a gun and shot Doherty several times and then fled, the police report read. Officers went down the street to Srivastava's home and arrested them.
Doherty had just walked his 6-year-old child to a school nearby when he confronted Srivastava, Shrewsbury Police Chief Kevin Anderson said during a press conference on Thursday .
The shooting prompted Calvin Coolidge Elementary School to go on lockdown. Shrewsbury Select Board member Beth Casavant told The Shrewsbury Post that the shooting was not otherwise connected to the school.
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