Two shot in Lower Mills; one dies
By adamg - Wed, 07/02/2008 - 1:41pm.
Boston Police report a double shooting at 115 River St. early this morning left one person dead.
Police say they were called to Carney Hospital around 2:40 a.m. when two people with gunshot wounds showed up there:
One victim is 27 year old black male suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the arm. The second victim is a 28 year old black female who suffered a gunshot wound to the chest. She has succumbed to her injury and was pronounced.
Police say the man drove himself and the woman to the hospital.
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holy christ.
Not to be all NIMBY about it, but where on River Street?
That was my first thought, too
Maybe if the item had been written by somebody who actually knew that River Street goes pretty much the entire length of the neighborhood.
The address now in the post comes from the Boston Police report, which I've used to replace the Globe link.
Which I'd call "Lower Mills" rather than "Mattapan" ....
but I guess we shouldn't start that up again. In any event, it's not 'the ghetto'.
BAH.
Entirely too close to my trolley stop for comfort.
True dat, Ron. The fracas could undoubtedly be heard from the fancy Milton cheese shop where Deval Patrick buys his Camembert. It's gonna be a long summer around here.
River Street
Beginning in Lower Mills, River Street follows the banks of the Neponset River through Dot, Mattapan and ends in Hyde Park. It runs through a couple of neighborhoods.
Actually, River st. ends in
Actually, River st. ends in Dedham.
Where...
115 is near where Cedar St cuts over to Milton. This one incident is fairly unusual for the neighborhood.
This one fits my theory!
This one fits my theory!
what?
Your comment is cryptic. Please elaborate.
Being out of doors between 12AM and 4AM...
gets you shot.
Or something to that effect. Some anon said it in the thread about to boy who go shot in Roxbury.
And being out of doors between 12 Noon and 4pm ...
gets you struck by lightning.
Lately, I agree. Anyone see
Lately, I agree. Anyone see hear that bolt that landed on one of the towers somewhere downtown?
Not get's you shot, but your
Not get's you shot, but your chances in several areas in Boston go up quite a bit.
no - it was kids shouldn't be let out after 8pm
or they'll get shot.
Sorry other anon, but it was
Sorry other anon, but it was my theory. I just asked if the poor boy was out playing at midnight to see if it fit my theory.
The theory was still; chances of getting shot go up late night / early morning, so you can lower your chances by going to bed at 10ish or so instead of lurking around a neighborhood at 2am.
report on gun violence in boston
....to go to bed at 8pm to avoid being shot to death seems like a silly concept to me.
There was a recent report on Boston government and law enforcement management of gang issues including gun violence by the Kennedy School of government. Maybe the issues that they raise, as substantive and pivotal, are the ones a serious discussion of the issue could attempt to treat. who has a link to that report?
the quote was
"... but i'm wondering if this lines up with my theory that if your inside by 8pm, then the likelihood of getting shot in the hood goes way down."
anyway you put it - it sounds snobby - like you're trying to tell the people in the hood how to live.
none of these horrible murders, that strike people outside, or in their cars, or in their apartments have anything to do with the victims' lifestyle or choices.
what about that little baby who was shot a few weeks ago, in her apartment, while her father was holding her? If she was outside for a walk, she wouldn't have gotten hit by a bullet in her home.
your theory that you keep referring to really isn't that good.
theory 2.0
My theory for not getting shot in, er, "the hood": Don't hang out with people who have hits out on them, at 2am or otherwise. Especially if you're a baby. Seriously, you'd think these damn babies would know better.
In all seriousness: Lower Mills is a working-class neighborhood, but the hood it ain't. Tom Finneran lives a few blocks from the latest incident. Deval Patrick's bazillion-dollar mansion is practically next door. The local Civic Association is alive and kicking. The state has been pouring millions of dollars into the bike paths and parkland along the Neponset River. It's a civil-servant neighborhood--half the city-owned vehicles you see around town are parked in people's driveways. If this brazen bullshit is going down here, watch your asses, Boston.
you watch
you watch your own bad ass
care to elaborate?
Do I know you, troll-person?
that is all
you watch your own bad ass.
NOT DOT.....
That is Mattapan.....thank you!! The BRA's take on Mattapan, which shares borders with Hyde Park, Roslindale, Roxbury, Milton, and Dorchester, beginning from the southeast corner of the neighborhood and moving clockwise:
Start at the end of Dorchester Avenue in Lower Mills on the west side of Adams Street up to the Neponset River, which divides Boston and Milton, move southwesterly along the riverbank past Mattapan Square to Mattakeeset Street, swing westerly up Mattakeeset to River Street, then up Greenfield Road to where it meets Cummins Highway. Up Cummins a short bit to its meeting with Harvard Street, right on Harvard to Walk Hill Street. Turn left on Walk Hill across American Legion Highway to Canterbury Street, right on Canterbury and back across the American Legion roadway, then up the easterly side of Blue Hill Avenue. Turn right down the westerly side of Blue Hill, then left on Talbot Avenue down the southerly side to New England Avenue. Take a right there and go across Morton Street to the Edson Street/Milton Avenue interchange, down Milton to Gallivan Boulevard, left on Gallivan a short bit, right on Ellison Avenue, then across Morton Street and over the spacious grounds of what was once a nursing home complex to Temple Street, down Temple to River Street, and left on River to the meeting of Adams Street and Dorchester Avenue at Lower Mills.
the BRA's Boston neighborhood maps are part of a large section on the agency's website: www.ci.boston.ma.us/bra.
Go to the section of the BRA site labeled Research and Publications. These Neighborhood Planning District maps make up one of the latest reports on the BRA list.
the herald's got the story
Local resident Tiffany Lomax was killed when the car she was riding in was targeted by gunfire.
bostonherald.com...Kin_mourn_loss_of_loving_mom__28
Sickening. Also, come on, Globe, put a freaking reporter on this already.
Wow
Just terrible.
As for the Globe, Jesus, the family HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE on the steps of their church and you couldn't be bothered to send an intern?
Ah, the Globe did cover the story
Hub police patrols set to target area gangs, so I take back what I said, Globe, although it's kind of an odd story in that the headline says one thing, then pretty much the entire story is about the poor dead woman, with maybe a couple of paragraphs about the gang targeting.