New Hampshire man charged with Dorchester murder; had been scheduled for hearing next month on whether to be returned to prison for violating probation on gun conviction

Boston Police report arresting a man originally from Dorchester on charges he shot two men on Danube Street, killing one, on Sunday night.

Police have yet to identify the murdered victim.

Ira Grayson, 35, currently living in Manchester, NH, was arrested around 10 this morning, three weeks before he was scheduled for a hearing in federal court in Manchester on whether he should be returned to federal prison for violating terms of his probation on a gun charge by pushing a woman of his acquaintance in the face in January.

That hearing was originally scheduled for March 15, but was continued until May 15 and then again until July 15. Probation and the US Attorney's office for New Hampshire agreed to let Grayson remain free while awaiting the hearing.

Grayson has a long record of gun and domestic-violence arrests and convictions in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In September, 2019, he was released to four years of probation after serving a 42-month federal sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm - a charge that came about after he and some buddies drove from Dorchester to a Manchester firing range in 2014 and shot off Uzis.

He posted video to his Facebook page and members of the Boston Police gang unit spotted that, launching an investigation that ended with a guilty plea in federal court in New Hampshire.

As a convicted felon, he was not supposed to go anywhere near guns, even for what his attorney described as a "benign" thing, as "a form of entertainment, akin to "going to a carnival arcade."

The first six months of his sentence was served concurrently with a sentence out of Lynn District Court on a domestic-violence charge.

The alleged shoving incident was actually the second time Grayson had gotten into trouble while on probation for the federal gun charge. Last September,

Manchester police arrested him for driving an ATV like a lunatic through the streets of the city, at one point right at a police officer in a cruiser, whom he allegedly flipped off. He was charged with riot, disobeying an officer and OUI.

After that incident, the federal probation office recommended to a judge that he be allowed to remain free on "supervised release," but that he be ordered to be periodically tested for alcohol for 60 days. A federal judge agreed.

On January 9 of this year, however, Manchester police charged Grayson with domestic assault after the alleged face-shoving incident.

On Jan. 19, a federal probation officer in New Hampshire asked a federal judge to revoke Grayson's probation and sentence him to additional time in federal prison for violating his probation.

At a hearing on Feb. 23, a magistrate judge initially set a hearing for March 15 on whether to revoke his probation. The court docket for his case does not explain the reason for the three delays.

Innocent, etc.