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   From: rathunting2025@gmail.com   
      
   Brookline police arrested a man on Wednesday night after he allegedly   
   fired a pellet rifle outside a synagogue, breaking the window of a car.   
      
   The incident, which took place as the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur was   
   beginning, triggered a large police response that brought more than a   
   dozen officers to Temple Beth Zion at 1566 Beacon Street, according to a   
   police report. However, police said it did not appear he was targeting   
   the temple, and the temple said in a social media post that there was no   
   evidence the incident was antisemitic in nature.   
      
   Carlos Gouvea, 43, was charged with illegally discharging a pellet gun,   
   disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and malicious damage of   
   personal property.   
      
   Gouvea, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School who is also the CEO   
   of a major Brazilian think tank, told police he was hunting rats,   
   according to the police report.   
      
   Neither he nor an attorney listed in court documents responded to a   
   request for comment on Friday. He was arraigned in Brookline District   
   Court on Thursday, and entered a plea of not guilty to all charges,   
   according to court records.   
      
   Police responded to the temple for a report of a man with a gun at 9:07   
   p.m. on October 1.   
      
   When officers arrived, two private security guards working at the temple   
   for the holiday told police that they had just had a run-in with Gouvea,   
   who lived nearby, according to the police report.   
      
   After hearing two "loud shots" fired, the security guards looked up the   
   street and saw Gouvea holding the pellet rifle. They approached him, he   
   set down the gun, and they tried to detain him, leading to a "brief   
   physical struggle," the report says.   
      
   He "lunged toward the rifle," then ran into his residence, a few doors   
   down from the temple.   
      
   When police arrived, they met Gouvea at the house, handcuffed him on the   
   sidewalk and arrested him.   
      
   Gouvea "admitted to using the pellet rifle to hunt rats in the area. He   
   was advised that it was unsafe to do so and to be aware of the alarm he   
   had caused," the police report says.   
      
   Later, police found a shattered window in a parked car nearby, and found   
   a pellet sitting inside the car.   
      
   Temple Beth Zion said in a Facebook post that there were services going   
   on at the time related to Yom Kippur, and the sanctuary was put on   
   lockdown while police cleared the scene.   
      
   "A big thank you to our security officers for handling this well, the   
   Brookline Police Department for responding quickly, and all of you who   
   listened, stayed calm, and remained in the sanctuary throughout the   
   incident," the temple said in a Facebook post.   
      
   Gouvea has been placed on administrative leave following the arrest, the   
   Harvard Crimson reported .   
      
   https://brookline.news/brookline-man-arrested-after-allegedly-firing-pell   
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