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DA: Older guy held kid as teen accomplice shot him in the chest
By adamg on Tue, 06/01/2010 - 3:15pm
Victim's father outside court: Nathaniel Davis Jr: 'Tell your kids you love them.' Photo via DA's office.
Suffolk County prosecutors today fingered Joshua Fernandes, 16, as the person who pulled the trigger and ended Nicholas Fomby-Davis's young life on Bowdoin Street Saturday evening.
Both Fernandes and Crisotomo Lopes, 20, who allegedly grabbed the boy off a motor scooter and then held him in place, were ordered held without bail today at their arraignment in Dorchester District Court on murder charges.
According to an account by Assistant District Attorney Patrick Haggan, an off-duty Boston cop in his own car watched the whole thing happen, starting around 7:45 p.m. Haggan said the pair started crouching down as if waiting for something. Then Fomby-Davis coming down Olney Street on a scooter.
Lopes then approached the scooter, grabbed its handlebars and removed Fomby-Davis by the chest. Fernandes then fired a .25 caliber semiautomatic handgun at least three times, hitting Fomby-Davis twice, leaving him "mortally wounded" with a gunshot wound to the chest and stumbling across the street as the two alleged thugs ran away, Haggan said.
Haggan said the officer ran after the two, his gun drawn and radioing for help. The DA's office says Lopes threatened to shoot the officer when caught. With his parents present, Fernandes told police he "blacked out and didn't remember anything."
Innocent, etc.
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Yea. OK
Boston murders this year are at 28 this versus 23 at this time last year , and summer hasn't even begun !!
They all in common that it is young black male teens in the 14-24 age range !
People , something has to be done about this. Boston is investing in so many things, yet seemingly ignoring the inner city's rough streets. All leaders and law enforcement have to get together and really figure something to stop this madness going on.
Boston, as a city you don't want to become the next pr horror story( see Chicago) and furthermore there isn't anything good that could come out letting the inner city youth kill and hurt themselves without doing anything about it . It will def snowball .
To their credit , it seems the new Shot Spotter seems to be a wise investement and helping get KIDS WITH GUNS caught almost right after the act! So kudos for that!
So yea , Boston has a young black male crime problem that it needs to fix before it affects more people and areas.... any ideas ??
I have an idea called
I have an idea called 'parenting', unfortunately it is a totally alien concept to those breeding these murderous youths.
Boston murders this year are
Boston murders this year are at 28 this versus 23 at this time last year , and summer hasn't even begun !!
Summer hadn't begun last year at this time, either.
parenting
there is no way nicholas deserved to die like this--no question. my sympathies to the families involved.
however there is a pretty obvious gang link--"older relative"? known associates? victim borrowed his "older relative's" scooter? two rival gang thugs lying in ambush for a gangbanger whose scooter they knew by sight?
didn't i see this on law & order two years ago? a case of mistaken identity, tragic shooting of an innocent younger sibling, but the bottom line is he died for the sins of his gangbanging brother.
my sympathies to mr. davis on his loss but parenting comes into it--you can raise four of 'em right, but one bad apple spoiled the whole barrel.
i would be surprised if the "older relative" wouldn't want to commit suicide knowing that he caused the death of his innocent brother--what a burden to carry the rest of his short miserable life...