On December 22, 2023, Joshua Manuel Deleon, then 22, of New Bedford, was involved in a violent altercation at a Taunton multi-unit home where he fired a gun, shot another man in the leg, and endangered residents including children in the apartment above.
According to police, at 10:00 p.m. on December 22nd, 2023, Taunton Police responded to a home on Newcomb Place after 911 dispatchers received a call from a cellphone around that location with a person screaming on the line. As two police officers arrived at a multi-unit house, dispatchers informed them that they had received reports of a firearm involved in an ongoing disturbance. Additional backup units were dispatched to the scene.
Officers announced their presence outside the home in question and a woman answered the door and allowed the officers to enter a second-floor apartment. Inside, they found two men struggling on the ground, with one man on top of the other. Noting the report of the presence of a firearm and fearing for their own safety and the safety of those around them, the officers unholstered their firearms and pointed them at the two men, ordering them to cease their struggle on the ground…