Crime & Safety

Deli Owner Describes First Time Cops Shot Salem Thug

Wednesday isn't the first time Raymond Wallace is alleged to have struggled for an officers gun and wound up shot.


It's been all over the news this week — a former Salem man, Raymond Wallace, is accused of reaching for a deputy's gun, starting a struggle that ended with a deputy shooting the ex-con.

But the Wednesday incident at Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary isn't the first time Wallace went for a cop's gun and wound up shot by police.

Our sister Patch in Waltham tracked down the owner of a deli where police on a stake-out confronted Wallace in 2001. He reached for one of their guns and...well, let's go to the video and let Rick Pizzi tell the story.


More Patch coverage of Wallace's alleged crimes:


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