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A terrifying scene of random violence unfolded on the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Monday afternoon, leaving two innocent bystanders fighting for their lives.

Just after 1 p.m., the chaos began with reports of a man acting erratically near Memorial Drive,

armed with a rifle and firing shots.

Middlesex District Attorney Marion Ryan identified the suspect as 46-year-old Tyler Brown of Boston.

By the time Massachusetts State Police reached the scene, the situation

had escalated into a full-scale active shooter event. That individual was already traveling

down the middle of Memorial Drive. Cars were stopped in traffic. He was in the possession

of that assault-style rifle that had been described, and he was

actively firing in an erratic fashion at various vehicles along the road.

As Brown unleashed a hail of gunfire, two men sitting in their vehicles were struck.

Both victims were rushed to a Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries.

While the bullets flew, witnesses and arriving officers scrambled for cover. When troopers arrived, we discovered some individuals actually under their car,

having tried to seek a safe place.

The violence was finally brought to an end by the combined efforts of a civilian marine veteran and a responding

state trooper. They managed to subdue Brown striking him multiple times. Brown is currently in

police custody at a local hospital. Investigators later recovered the rifle on the grass near a bike

path by the Charles River, a location that highlighted the potential for even more casualties.

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