Kirkland was shot six times by police and has been recuperating from the injuries in an unspecified Department of Corrections facility.
Tamik KirklandSPRINGFIELD – Tamik J. Kirkland, accused of killing one man, injuring another and shooting at police – will be arraigned Thursday in Hampden Superior Court.
Although the crimes happened April 30, Kirkland, a prison escapee, was shot six times by police and has been recuperating from the injuries in an unspecified Department of Corrections facility.
Kirkland, 24, faces the murder charge for the fatal shooting of Sheldon Innocent of Wilbraham. Innocent was one of two men who were shot at Bill Brown’s House of Beauty at 945 State St.
Law enforcement officials have said Innocent was a blameless bystander.
In addition to the murder charge Kirkland was indicted Thursday by a Hampden Superior Court grand jury of three counts of home invasion; three counts of armed assault with intent to murder (with victims listed as city Police Officer Raul Gonzalez, State Trooper Stephen Gregorczyk and barbershop owner Darryl King); and two counts of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon (victims Gonzalez and Gregorczyk).
Also, one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury (victim King); two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm (as a second offender); two counts of unlawful possession of a loaded firearm; and one count each of possession of a large capacity firearm and possession of a large capacity feeding device.
Gonzalez and Gregorczyk survived the close-range shooting because both were wearing bulletproof vests, police have said. They were treated at Baystate Medical Center.
Trevin T. Smith will also be arraigned Thursday in Hampden Superior Court.
He was indicted Thursday for accessory before the fact of murder, accessory after the fact of murder, and two counts of reckless endangerment of a child.
A police report in Smith’s file said he told his girlfriend to go to a Burr Street address and open the trunk of her car. She had her 12-year-old daughter and a 6-month-old child she was baby-sitting in the back seat when she found herself in the middle of a gun battle between Kirkland and law enforcement officers.
Smith, 30, of 79 Penrose St., pleaded innocent at his arraignment in May in District Court to accessory after the fact of murder.
Kirkland is accused of opening fire as he leapt from trunk of the Smith’s girlfriend’s car. Police said that was when officers shot back.
Kirkland had escaped from a minimum security state prison in Shirley on April 24.
It appears King, the barbershop owner who was shot and wounded, may have been known to Kirkland. In a report that requested a warrant be issued for Smith’s arrest King, told investigators he “had seen the shooter on a prior occasion.”
A preliminary investigation showed Kirkland fled the prison in Shirley a day after his mother was injured in a shooting on Ringgold Street.