RANDUMB?

Cambridge.  A 30-year-old Cambridge man died from his wounds and another person was injured in a shooting at Watson and Brookline streets in Cambridge early Saturday morning.

According to authorities, at approximately 12:15 a.m., Cambridge Police responded to a double shooting that occurred at the intersection of Watson Street and Brookline Street in Cambridge. The victims initially drove away from the scene in a bullet-riddled white Cadillac and "were able to flag down a fire truck, who alerted police," the Middlesex DA's office reported. Witnesses counted a dozen bullet holes in the windshield of the car, which was found on Massachusetts Avenue near Main Street, our news partner, WCVB, reported.

Upon arrival, authorities located three individuals in the car, two suffering from obvious gun shot wounds. The two victims were transported to area hospitals where one of the victims, identified as James Lauture, 30, of Cambridge, was pronounced dead. The other victim is expected to survive, according tot the Middelsex DA's office.

Cambridge Police and State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office are conducting an investigation into the circumstances of the shooting. While no arrests have been made, authorities do not believe the shooting incident to have been  random.  Random?

Let's take a closer look, shall we.

Closer

A dozen bullets fired directly at the driver and they “don’t believe” it’s random?  Well that’s an excellent start.  What else do they know about the “victim?” 

Mr. Lauture survived being stabbed three times in the chest in 2001 outside the Alewife T Station according to the Cambridge Chronicle.

In 2008, according to archives,  James Lauture was arrested for reportedly becoming rowdy after he was denied entry to a Somerville club because he wouldn't honor the club's "no hat" policy.

Lauture faced charges of resisting arrest, trespassing and disorderly conduct. Police also charged Lauture with furnishing a false name or Social Security number after Lauture allegedly gave cops a false name while being booked at the police station.  If this is all he got pinched for imagine what he got away with, until now.

Well this will be an interesting case to watch.  And whether you take the opinion it is a terrible crime or the perpetrator did society a favor, I hope we can agree on one thing: somebody got their man.