Alleged rifle-wielding Mass. shooter snoozes during first court appearance

The madman accused of spraying bullets indiscriminately down a busy Massachusetts street brazenly snoozed through his arraignment hearing Thursday – while prosecutors laid out the disturbing allegations against him. Tyler Brown, who tuned into the proceeding remotely from his hospital room, appeared tucked under the covers with his eyes shut and head rolling side-to-side as his two attorneys sat on either side of his bed, bizarre video shows.His lawyers – who were given permission by the court to speak on Brown’s behalf – entered a not guilty plea to charges including two counts of armed assault with intent to murder and possession of a gun without a license. The 46-year-old career criminal – who had just been sprung from a psychiatric hospital last Friday – seriously injured two men when he fired more than 70 rounds at random using an assault-style rifle on Memorial Drive on Monday afternoon, according to court documents and the prosecutor.  Earlier in the day, Brown – who was on probation for a 2021 conviction for trying to kill a cop – allegedly called his parole officer in a frantic, intoxicated state. The crack cocaine user admitted he’d relapsed the night before and was experiencing “suicidal ideations” – and then called his case manager back on FaceTime, where he was seen in the video holding the gun that police would later find at the shooting scene, a Medford prosecutor said during the hearing. “These people are going to pay and I’m not going to go back to prison,” a strung-out Brown said during the video call, and claimed that he’d committed murders that he’d never been caught for, according to the attorney and court documents. The parole officer took a screenshot of the crazed criminal wielding a rifle in the call and forwarded it to the authorities.Brown – whose lengthy rap sheet includes a 2021 conviction for trying to kill a Boston cop, as well as an armed robbery in Michigan and drug offenses in New Hampshir...