A MEMBER of the Tartan Army has spoken out after he was caught up in a shooting incident at a hotel in Massachusetts.
Stuart Mackelvie, who is set to attend Scotland’s next World Cup match against Morocco, was staying at the Sturbridge Plaza Hotel in Sturbridge, around 60 miles outside of Boston, when he was woken up in the early hours of Thursday morning.
According to CBS News, he told reporters: "I heard gunshots and then I looked out the window again and a lady had driven her SUV into the side of the hotel and then she jumped out and was shouting, 'Where are you? Where are you?' and then shot three times quickly, it seemed like, into the hotel room.
"Then I heard smashing glass, and I think she maybe climbed into the room and then there was loads of banging and stuff like she was trying to break a door down or something and then I called 911."
He said that police then arrived alongside ambulance crews minutes later. "It was terrifying. I thought I could kind of tell it was targeted. It wasn't like a random shooter wandering around the hotel,” Mackelvie added.
"I've seen this stuff on TV, but I've never been anywhere near anything like this.
"In the UK the police aren't armed routinely, the public aren't armed routinely so a domestic disturbance doesn't get to this stage."
In a statement, Sturbridge police chief Earl Dessert said that the incident was being investigated by local police, state police and the Worcester County district attorney’s office.
“We ask the public to avoid speculation and allow investigators the time necessary to conduct a thorough and complete investigation", he said.
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