City Police: Shooter surrenders Written By Leon Thompson Wednesday, August 15, 2007 Man, 22, claims he felt threatened by victim ST. ALBANS CITY ¬¬–– A 22-year-old St. Albans man was to be arraigned today for allegedly shooting a Berkshire resident on Federal Street Tuesday morning.     Matthew Martel, 22, surrendered to city police at 9 last night, about 18 hours after police said he pulled a gun on Jonathan Bushee, 20, and shot Bushee in the left thigh.     Bushee was treated and released from the Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans.     Authorities said Bushee was lucky that  the bullet caused only a flesh wound not involving damage to arteries or bone.     City Police Sgt. Leonard “Joey” Stell said Martel felt threatened, because Bushee and his friends were following him in the city.     Martel thought Bushee was going to lunge at him on Federal Street, so he pulled a handgun and fired, according to Stell.     “There really wasn’t any motive,” Stell said.     Martel was being held on $10,000 bail today at Northwest State Correctional Facility, pending his 11 a.m. arraignment at Vermont District Court.     Martel was arrested without incident and was cooperative, Stell said.     According to Stell, lead investigator in the case, Bushee was walking on Lake Street with John Wells, 19, of Berkshire, and another 16-year-old female from Berkshire, whom police would not identify.     Stell said Wells and Martel got into a verbal confrontation. Bushee and his friends do not know Martel.     The four of them encountered each other again on Federal Street, at 3:15 a.m. That’s when Bushee was shot.     Neither the victim nor his friends made the 911 call; that came from a Federal Street resident who heard the commotion outside.     Tuesday morning, as a search for the shooter ensued, police cordoned off the one-block area between Kingman and Lake Street. Traffic heading south on Federal Street was rerouted up Kingman and right, onto Main Street.     About 20 officers from the city, Vermont State Police and Franklin County Sheriff’s Office were at the scene, searching for and collecting evidence, securing the area and interviewing witnesses.     The Federal Street area was reopen to traffic by 10 a.m. --  --  -- A Messenger report Monday, given as police were still pulling together details of the shooting, incorrectly spelled the last name of the victim as Bushey and provided an incorrect age of 18.

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