Richmond police say they received a tip that helped them thwart a mass shooting on the Fourth of July.
The citizen then called Richmond police, and the department began an investigation with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
Smith said officers surveilled a second suspect and watched him throughout the holiday until they had probable cause to make an arrest. The second suspect, Rolman A. Balacarcel, 38, was taken into custody and charged with the same counts as the first suspect. "If he were to try any act of violence, our officers would have acted swiftly and beforehand," Smith said."We were watching and very, very closely. … Not trying to sound evasive, but [if] the officer saw him making any violent moves, they would have acted very swiftly.""We've seen the proliferation of weapons of war being used on our civilian population throughout this country," Stoney said."We've seen it in Uvalde.
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