Lenient sentence lets repeat offender go on new rampage

Massachusetts prosecutors blasted a judge for a five-to-six-year sentence with three years’ probation handed to Tyler Brown, a repeat offender who had pleaded guilty to armed assault with intent to murder and had previously fired on Boston officers. They had sought 12 years in prison plus five years’ probation. Brown, released in January, allegedly fired 50–60 rounds at cars along Memorial Drive in Cambridge on Monday, leaving two men critically injured, before being shot by a state trooper and a Marine licensed to carry, and hospitalized. He faces two counts of armed assault with intent to murder.