Alleged Peter Luger’s shooter arraigned on tried homicide expenses

The gunman who cops say wounded two folks when he opened fireplace outdoors Peter Luger Steak Home was denied bail Saturday at his arraignment in Brooklyn felony court docket on expenses that embrace two counts of tried homicide.

Arkies Sommerville, 24, will likely be eating on jailhouse delicacies after Decide Loren Baily-Schiffman turned down his lawyer’s request that he be granted “cheap bail” and launched offered he’s tracked with an digital monitoring gadget.

Sommerville — who appeared remotely by way of livestream — lives together with his girlfriend and stepdaughter in Brooklyn. He allegedly opened fireplace at a cousin and two different males after they escorted him out of the well-known Williamsburg eatery for combating over ladies throughout a birthday celebration there Thursday evening.

Assistant District Lawyer Samantha Santo alleged that Sommerville fired twice, first hitting a diner within the arm after which a patron ready to be seated who took a bullet to the stomach.

The primary sufferer was a vacationer from California who’s recovering at Bellevue Hospital with a bullet lodged close to his backbone, police sources stated. The opposite man was handled and launched from the hospital.

That man informed The Submit Saturday “I’m a sufferer. I really feel like crap. I’ve simply been shot.”

Santo stated there was surveillance video from outdoors Luger as the meat burned. It was not proven in the course of the court docket continuing, nevertheless it reveals that “a number of people had been inside a number of toes of (Sommerville) sitting at tables consuming their meals and standing in entrance of the situation,” in keeping with a replica of the felony grievance that additionally expenses Sommerville with assault and weapons possession.

He’s additionally alleged to have pointed his gun at three folks about two blocks away from the restaurant.

Sommerville’s lawyer tried to argue that he works full-time in building and has “sturdy group ties and powerful group assist.”

However he was not solely denied bail, he bought sentenced to 2 days in jail for an unrelated 2014 disorderly conduct case through which he had beforehand pled responsible, however solely accomplished 5 of his six group service days.

He additionally has 5 open warrants in North Carolina, the place cops warned on Fb in February that he ought to “be thought-about armed and really harmful.”

The North Carolina warrants towards Sommerville allege crimes that embrace the armed theft of a person who was tied up, overwhelmed and had a gun held to his head inside his home in Littleton on Feb. 2, in keeping with a Fb submit by the town police division.

At across the identical time because the arraignment in Williamsburg, Peter’s Luger was open for enterprise.

“We’re all feeling OK. Individuals are nonetheless coming in. It’s a daily day. Easy,” a employee on the restaurant informed The Submit on Saturday.

Sommerville is due again in Brooklyn Felony Court docket on Might 5.

Extra reporting by Steven Vago