Boston Police report they chased a speeding vehicle through neighborhood streets before blocking the car in at the Morton Street rotary.
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In December 2014 a political artist from Jamaica Plain created a piece of public art as a commentary on the number of children killed by guns on a daily basis. That piece was made of painted children’s chairs attached to a chain-link fence, and was removed within 48 hours by the Boston Police Department, located across the street from the art site. The removal of that piece did not deter the artist who yesterday installed a new work.
Boston Police report that a resident noticed a gun lying on the ground near a Franklin Park playground. The weapon turned out to be loaded and cocked.
Here are highlights from the police blotter for Jamaica Plain from Wednesday, April 15 through Sunday, April 19. You can view incidents in the interactive map above and a text list below.
Among the incidents during this period was a traffic stop for a busted taillight that wound up netting arrests and charges for three illegal guns.
Boston Police found a loaded hunting pistol under the bed of a 17-year-old on Horan Way on Friday.
UPDATE: Prosecutors say taking this gun off the street might have prevented another shooting.
“If his intent was to retaliate for that earlier shooting,” Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said in a statement, “then Boston Police may well have saved a life when they made this arrest.”
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Hours after a person was shot at Wyman and Centre streets, police recovered a gun a block away. But it isn’t clear if there’s a connection between the two incidents.