Man In Pizza Place Police Standoff Found Guilty On 17 Counts

FRAMINGHAM, MA—A Framingham man who was the center of a police standoff as he stood on the roof of a pizza shop with a rifle last summer has been found guilty of multiple counts.

Justin Breakspear, 32, was found guilty by a jury Friday of 17 counts related to an incident in which he shot at police after an argument with his wife, ran, and led police to a pizza place in which he owned, reports MetroWest Daily News.

Breakspear was found guilty of five counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, six counts of possession of a high capacity magazine, two counts of possession of ammunition without an FID card and one count each of possession of a gun, possession of a large capacity gun, discharging a gun within 500 feet of a dwelling and possession of a loaded gun, said MWDN.

He was found not guilty of five of the counts.

Breakspear was arrested after police talked him down off the Slice of New York Pizza shop on Edgell Road in July of 2017; it was on the same building they had an encounter with him at earlier in the day.

By night's end, police had Breakspear, who allegedly fired gunshots and caused a shelter-in-place advisory from Framingham police, in handcuffs. The area near Nobscot Square had been shut down for two hours as a heavy police presence filled the streets.

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Photo via Framingham police