Dorchester man charged with gun possession under the influence, among other things

Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on a variety of charges after, they say, he tried to speed away from police investigating gunfire only to crash into a parked car with a loaded gun in his center console.

Police say officers alerted to the sound of shots on Glenway Street near Harvard Street around 10:45 p.m. yesterday spotted a car fleeing the area at a high rate of speed:

Officers activated their lights and sirens and attempted to stop the car when it sped up even more and took off from officers. The suspect operating at a high rate of speed fled down Harvard St. and turned onto Radcliffe Street where he collided with a parked car.

Police say Stevenson Spencer, 32, attempted to walk away but didn't get too far. In his car's center console, police say, officers found a gun with "sixteen live rounds of ammunition inside a thirty-one round magazine with one shell casing inside the chamber." Two more shell casings turned up under the passenger seat, and a live round under the driver's seat, police say, adding Spencer "was determined to have a strong odor of alcohol on his person, and noticeably slurred his speech, and was unsteady on his feet."

Spencer was charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm (subsequent offense), unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of a large capacity feeding device, carrying a loaded firearm on a public way, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling, carrying a loaded firearm while intoxicated, receiving a stolen firearm, operating under the influence of alcohol, refusal to submit, use of a motor vehicle in the commission of a felony.

Innocent, etc.