DA: The minister was a pot dealer

A Roxbury minister paid by Boston Public Schools to offer anger-management classes to students was ordered held in lieu of $250,000 bail today on charges he shot a kid in the head over an alleged disagreement involving the minister's pot-dealing business, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.

Three men spotted coming out of Shaun Harrison's home after the shooting were also arraigned today, two on pot charges, one on a gun charge, the DA's office reports. All were ordered held after their bail on earlier open cases was revoked.

According to the DA's office, Harrison, who had built up a reputation as a minister working to steer teens from gangs, was wholesaling pot out of his Pompeii Street home and had recruited the 17-year-old to work for him. They had a falling out, but then, the Herald reports, Harrison lured him for a visit with promises of pot and girls. The DA's office continues:

On Tuesday evening, [Assistant DA David] Bradley said, the two left Harrison’s Pompeii Street residence and were walking on Magazine Street at about 7:15 when Harrison produced a handgun, pointed it at the back of the victim’s head, and fired. Harrison allegedly fled the scene on foot. Surveillance footage from a nearby business captured the incident.

The victim was transported to Boston Medical Center and is expected to survive his injuries.

In recent years, Harrison has worked at BPS's Odyssey High School in South Boston, Orchard Garden School in Roxbury, Boston Green Academy in Brighton - where he complained about gay students and his not being allowed to hold bible-study classes - and, most recently, English High School.

Unlike other street ministers and city officials, Harrison advocated for gun classes and competitions in local schools, and was a member of the Gun Owners Action League.

Also arraigned today were Dante Lara, 23, of Cambridge, Wilson Peguero, 22, of Dorchester, and Osca Pena, 19, of Dorchester. According to the DA's office:

Boston Police detectives investigating the shooting traveled to Harrison’s residence, where they observed Lara, Peguero, and Pena leaving the building. Officers detained the men, found they were in possession of marijuana, firearms, and a police scanner. Their connection to Harrison and his alleged drug enterprise remain under investigation, but two of them bore tattoos similar to one Harrison has and prosecutors believe they were present at the residence to remove evidence.

Authorities continue to investigate Harrison's alleged drug dealing, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.