Alleged former gang leader serving out his drug sentence in a halfway house charged with trying to shoot somebody repeatedly in Uphams Corner in March

A man authorities say once headed up the Hendry Street Gang and who was finishing up a federal drug-distribution sentence at a halfway house in the Fenway got into a dispute with somebody outside the Dublin House in Uphams Corner on March 2 that ended with him firing numerous shots across Stoughton Street, a police detective told the Boston Licensing Board today.

Fortunately for his intended target, Alexis Hidalgo, 41, was a terrible shot, missing the guy completely even as he pumped bullets into four vehicles - before jumping into a waiting, rented pickup that police quickly connected to him through his rental agreement, police said.

The board held a hearing on the incident to determine whether the Stoughton Street bar could have foreseen the incident or done anything to stop it.

Dublin House's attorney, William Gardiner, bar owner Yaser Mohammed and two security guards on duty that night reported that Hidalgo, wearing a puffy red coat, did come into the bar, but said he didn't interact with anybody else inside and that all the trouble started outside, once he left, shortly after 1 a.m.

They added that Hidalgo didn't bring a gun into the bar with him, which they know because everybody entering the bar is extensively patted down first.

BPD Det. Kevin Coakley, who responded to the scene after the department's ShotSpotter system reported four different gunfire instances, said that during some sort of altercation outside the bar, Hidalgo picked up a gun that had dropped to the ground and began firing at another man, who started running down Stoughton Street and then into the cemetery across the street in an attempt to evade getting shot, even as Hidalgo followed him, "discharging several rounds across the street."

Hidalgo was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition, Coakley said, adding he was also charged as a Level 3 armed-career criminal - which could mean longer sentences if he's convicted on the other charges.

Innocent, etc.