December 11, 2024
Fresh News for the Neighborhood You Love
Boston Police confirm that one of the people shot Friday in Hyde Square is dead.
Police were called to the area of Centre and Wyman just before 6 p.m. on Friday for reports of two people having been shot, according to spokespersons for the police. Officer Rachel McGuire later confirmed that one of the victims died. The other person has “life-threatening injuries” and was being treated at Boston Medical Center, McGuire said.
The Rev. Shaun O. Harrison, who since fall has been dean of students at Jamaica Plain’s English High School, is being arraigned Thursday in the shooting of a 17-year-old in Roxbury.
UPDATE: The woman struck in the back is expected to survive.
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Transit Police report a second victim of Monday’s shooting has been found — and she also was simply a bystander. Police have also made two arrests.
UPDATE: Authorities discovered a second bystander was hit in Monday’s shooting. Two arrests have also been made. Here’s an updated story.
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A woman was struck in the head Monday when a man fired several bullets into Forest Hills Station, Transit Police confirm.
Emergency crews on Asticou Road on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. Credit: Chris Helms
UPDATE: Police have confirmed this was a shooting. Click here for our updated story.
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A woman was struck by something — possibly a bullet — at Forest Hills Station Monday afternoon. Scanner traffic indicated a possible shooting, but that has not been confirmed by police.
Erik Bornermann, a friend of the victim, told Jamaica Plain News she was bleeding from the back of her head. She ran to Asticou Road after the incident.
Boston Police report that five men and a woman were shot Friday night.
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.
