Woonsocket Police Captured Man Wanted For Lincoln Shooting

WOONSOCKET, RI — Wanted for a shooting in Lincoln and a sexual assault in Woonsocket, Sean Almeida-Brown, 21, of Woonsocket, was surrounded by police in his Napoleon Street home Tuesday morning. That's when officers managed to contact his mother, who was inside the single-family home. She helped convince her son to surrender.

"We talked him out," Capt. Michael Lemoine said. Woonsocket and Lincoln detectives were outside the house because Woonsocket officers had spotted Almeida-Brown's car parked around the corner. They were hunting for him in connection with a sexual assault that happened in Woonsocket a few hours before the shooting in Lincoln. When they saw his car, they suspected he was home.

Almeida-Brown allegedly robbed and shot a man on Smithfield Street in Lincoln on Monday night, but he got away. Then a Lincoln woman went to Lincoln police to report a sexual assault also on Monday night. She went police, Capt. Lemoine confirmed. However, the assault happened in Woonsocket and became a Woonsocket case.

"It turned out she was acquainted with this suspect from the shooting," he said.

Woonsocket police interviewed Almeida-Brown after he was in custody. Based on those interviews, police believe Almeida-Brown went to Lincoln on Monday night and picked up the woman. Driving her back to Woonsocket," he assaulted her in the car several times," Lemoine said. The first-degree sexual assault happened in his house. After he drove the woman back to her Lincoln home, he also stole her phone, police allege, and used the social media app on her phone to lure his shooting victim to Smithfield Street in Lincoln.

Woonsocket police charged him Tuesday with first degree Domestic sexual assault; Domestic Assault with a deadly weapon (a gun); Domestic kidnapping; Domestic Simple Assault (for the assaults in the car); Domestic Disordely Conduct; and Larceny (for stealing the phone). The bail commissioner heard the charges Tuesday but because there was a capital offense, he recommended Almeida-Brown be held until he could be arraigned in court on Wednesday.

The judge ordered him held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions. His bail hearing is May 16.

The Woonsocket charges are not the only criminal charges Almeida-Brown is facing. Lincoln Police have charged him with felony Assault With Intent To Commit Specified Felonies (for the shooting) and First-degree Robbery.

And while Woonsocket police were interviewing Almeida-Brown, state police called and asked if they could pick him up. They are investigating him for allegedly sending "inappropriate pictures" to a juvenile female, Lemoine said. State police had a warrant. They are charging him with a felony for Electronically Disseminating Indecent Material to a Minor, according to the Judicial Portal.