Roberto Carrucini, 29, randomly fired shots from a semiautomatic handgun while walking along city streets early Saturday morning, according to Springfield police.
Springfield police arrested a city man for allegedly indiscriminately firing a handgun as he walked through city streets early Saturday morning.SPRINGFIELD -- Police have charged a Springfield man for allegedly indiscriminately firing a semiautomatic handgun while walking along city streets early Saturday morning.
Officers responding to multiple shooting reports shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday quickly apprehended 29-year-old Roberto Carrucini as he headed down Central Street toward the city's South End.
A flurry of back-to-back "shots fired" calls sent police units scrambling to locations on Avon Place and a stretch of Maple Street before Carrucini was apprehended outside 63 Central St.
Springfield Police Capt. Cheryl C. Clapprood said Carrucini will face a host of firearms charges when he's arraigned Monday in Springfield District Court.
Police said Carrucini, whose last known address was on Avon Place, was in possession of a 40-caliber semiautomatic handgun at the time of his arrest. Clapprood said he resisted when officers attempted to take him into custody.
The gunfire reports began in the Six Corners neighborhood, just north of Maple Street, and continued as Carrucini headed toward the South End.
At least nine shots were fired, according to initial police reports.
Carrucini is well known to Springfield authorities, who have arrested him on multiple occasions in recent years.
He was convicted of drug charges and sentenced to jail in 2007, according to Republican archives.
In 2005, he was a passenger in a van that came under fire from another vehicle during a North End shootout. Carrucini and others were charged with receiving a stolen vehicle and drug possession in connection with that incident.
And in 2003, he was charged with domestic abuse in connection with a case involving a toddler, according to police and Republican records.
With no apparent victims or property damage from Saturday's gunfire, Carrucini appears to have randomly discharged the weapon while walking through city streets, police said.
THE MAP BELOW shows the approximate location of where a man was arrested around 1:56 a.m. Saturday for allegedly shooting off a gun as he walked through city streets: