His lawyer didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Delman, who is also identified in court papers as Anthony Delman-Edwards and Anthony Edwards, was ordered held without bail on the Dennis charges. He has not been arraigned on charges connected to the Carver shooting, court records show.
Shortly after 9 p.m. on Aug. 13, police went to Buncey’s Pizza and Sports Cafe in Dennis, a police report said.
The restaurant owner, Kevin Larocco, told police he had heard “a loud bang and a male screaming as if he had been hurt,” the report said.
Larocco said he spotted a man in the parking lot, later identified as Delman’s cousin Joshua Delman, before he got into a truck that drove off.
Police later approached Joshua Delman at a local convenience store and asked who had shot him.
“He responded ‘you guys already know,’” the report said. “It was my cousin.”
Joshua Delman told police “that his cousin has mental health issues,” the report said. Delman said they were in the restaurant parking lot and [his cousin] started pointing a gun at his own head saying he was going to kill himself.”
When he told his cousin to stop, Anthony Delman pointed the gun at him and later shot him in the leg, the report said. Additional police reports said Joshua Delman was shot in the foot.
“I asked [Joshua] Delman if he thought the shooting was accidental or intentional and he said that he definitely did it on purpose,” the report said.
The woman wounded in the Carver shooting, meanwhile, walked into that town’s police station around 7:37 p.m. to report that her car had been broken into. She later told an officer that a bullet had passed through her hip, apparently as someone opened fire at Sampson’s Pond, records show.
“She pulled down her left blue pajama pant leg and showed me what appeared to be a small round red mark on her left side buttock area,” police said. “The mark was the same size and shape that a small bullet would make upon impact.”
The woman and Anthony Delman, who’s married to someone else, had previously dated, according to court records.
Police said her vehicle showed damage “consistent with a bullet hole to the driver’s side door about halfway up the door,” as well as “what appeared to be a bullet hole in the passenger side roof area of the vehicle. This bullet appears to have traveled inside the vehicle first, and then up through the roof.”
A shell casing was also recovered from the passenger side floor, officials said.
On Aug. 15, Joshua Delman told police he drove to Carver to pick up his cousin at the request of the woman, who was “screaming and begging him to come pick up Anthony,” the report said.
Two friends of Joshua Delman told police that he had indicated to them that Anthony Delman “shot his firearm” at the woman in Carver.
Police also spoke to Joshua Delman’s mother on Aug. 15, records show.
She indicated that “she knows Anthony has a gun and that his Facebook page was all about threats and that he was coming down there to settle scores and would see his kids on the other side,” police said.
She also told police that when she was dressing Joshua Delman’s wound that morning, he said that “‘your favorite nephew is great, he is the one that set up the page with the girls and he is the one who tried to shoot” the woman, court papers said.
It wasn’t clear what the “page with the girls” referred to, but police said the woman was “questioned about the sex trafficking, but [she] could not report any specific details, stating she could not remember. [She] was offered services and has put in applications with the appropriate organizations to receive help with her situation.”
Police in Dennis arrested Anthony Delman on the morning of Aug. 14 as he came out of a wooded area.
An officer spotted him “making a stretching motion with his arms over his head as if he had just woken up,” a police report said.
Delman later got into a rideshare vehicle that police soon pulled over.
Delman was “covered in scratches on his arms, legs and face, as if he had been running through the woods and various pricker bushes,” the report said.
After being placed in a cruiser and read his Miranda rights, Delman told police that once he and his cousin arrived outside Buncey’s in Dennis, two masked men shot at their vehicle.
He told police “he took off running to get away from the shooters but knew that his cousin had been shot but was unsure [of] the severity of his injuries.”
Police said Delman has a lengthy criminal record, with 31 arraignments as an adult.
His next hearing in the Dennis case is scheduled for Sept. 15.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com.
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