BOURNE, Mass. (AP) -- A Wareham man was in critical condition at a Boston hospital after he was allegedly shot by a former Bourne firefighter.
Police said Jeffrey Harrington, 30, of the town's Buzzards Bay section, was arrested Sunday morning and charged with shooting 36-year-old Gerald Carbone in the head during an altercation earlier that morning.
Harrington was scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Falmouth District Court on charges including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
According to police, Carbone and Harrington got into a fight shortly before 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Tamijka Fernandes, who was walking home from a market, spotted Carbone lying bleeding in the intersection of Cohasset and Wallace avenues.
``I was just in shock,'' Fernandes told the Cape Cod Times. ``There was so much blood all over him, I couldn't tell where the wound was.''
Fernandes called police, who found the victim unconscious but breathing.
Police said they recovered the gun they believe was used in the shooting.
In 1999, Harrington was involved in an incident which eventually led to the resignation of then-Bourne Fire Chief Steven Philbrick.
According to police testimony at the time, Harrington was arrested after he was found sleeping in Philbrick's patrol car with an empty beer can between his legs at the unmanned Monument Beach firehouse. Harrington testified that, after a night of drinking with Philbrick, he went to the station to jump-start a fire engine with the chief's patrol car.
In the subsequent investigation, police found an illegally registered .357-caliber Magnum gun owned by Philbrick in Harrington's car.
