Pawtucket Cop Dan Dolan Pleads Not Guilty In Teen Shooting Case

PAWTUCKET, RI — Pawtucket police officer Daniel Dolan, 38, has pleaded not guilty to felony charges connected to a West Greenwich shooting.

Dolan appeared before a Kent County Superior Court judge this morning and denied three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one charge of discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence. A court magistrate set bail at $25,000 and Dolan was released on personal recognizance and ordered to surrender his firearms to the state police.

Prosecutors say on June 23, while off-duty, Dolan accosted an unarmed teen driver and his two passengers in the parking lot of Wicked Good Pizza and shot the driver in the arm.

Dolan, driving a white Ford-350 truck, followed a black Audi A4 into the pizza shop parking lot, got out, approached the sedan while displaying his badge, then used his service pistol to shoot through the Audi's window as the driver, 18-year-old Dominic Vincent, tried to leave the scene with two teen passengers in the car, according to a charging document.

Attorney General Peter Neronha on July 1 charged Dolan with felonies via criminal information.

Related: Download Neronha's charging document

Dolan, now on unpaid leave from the Pawtucket Police Department, is a school resource officer at Slater Middle School and works in the community policing unit.

Attorney James Howe is representing the interests Vincent, 18, and of brothers Vincent and Joseph Greco, ages 18 and 17, who were passengers in the Audi.

The boys told police they were simply swinging by to pick up a pizza and watch sports on TV. Dolan told police he'd seen the Audi speed by them on Interstate 95 and wanted to talk to the driver. A state police analysis show the Audi was traveling in excess of 100 mph, the Boston Globe reports.

Pawtucket city councilwoman Melissa DaRosa said she had previously warned Mayor Donald Grebien and Police Chief Tina Goncalves about Dolan. The Rhode Island Accountability Project is currently seeking the release of five years of internal affairs reports from the Pawtucket Police Department.