Last summer, a suspect shot the ATM at Sully’s Ice Cream Stand in Chelmsford nine times. Sixteen months later, police have arrested and charged the suspected gunman.
Nahant resident Da’Sean Norbert, 25, pleaded not guilty to charges of malicious destruction of property worth over $1,200, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building and disturbing the peace in Lowell District Court on Monday, according to court records.
On May 3, 2024, Chelmsford police received multiple reports of loud bangs in the area of Sully’s Ice Cream Stand at 55 Graniteville Road around 1 a.m., the police department said in the press release. Police responded to the business around 7:20 a.m. and found numerous spent shell casings in its parking lot.
Investigators also found that the ice cream stand’s outdoor ATM had been shot nine times, police said. The machine was damaged, but its money compartment remained intact.
A few days later, investigators released images of the suspect and the gray Chevrolet Malibu he left the scene in that they’d taken from security video of the incident, police said. They also sent the ballistics evidence they’d collected at the scene to the Massachusetts State Police crime lab, and it was later shared with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
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With help from the ATF, investigators were able to link the ballistics evidence to a specific firearm, police said. After a “lengthy” investigation, they identified Norbert as the registered owner of the firearm and the Malibu at the time of the incident.
Police obtained an arrest warrant for Norbert out of Lowell District Court on Sept. 24, 2025, and Nahant police located and arrested him the following night without incident, police said.
During his arraignment, Norbert was ordered held on $1,000 cash bail and later released after his bail was posted, according to court records. A judge ordered conditions of his release, including that he not possess any guns or dangerous weapons.
Norbert’s next court date is a pretrial hearing scheduled for Nov. 7.