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Four shot at Hyde Park convenience store

By adamg on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 2:30pm

UPDATE: Brockton man arrested for Hyde Park quadruple shooting.

For those keeping track: So far Boston is up to seven shootings this holiday weekend, two of them fatal (a third man was murdered with a bag containing something hard).

Boston Police report four people were shot at the Tedeschi's (formerly the Store 24) at 1187 Hyde Park Ave. around 2 a.m. today.

Police say the four were approached by three or four young men, who opened fire. The four got into their car and fled to 142 West St., where they called police:

Victim #1 had been shot through the left hand, victim #2 had been shot on the left side of the stomach, victim #3 had been shot on the left thigh, and victim #4 had been shot on the inner left thigh.

All were taken to local hospitals; all expected to survive

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By anon on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 3:13pm.

At the entrance to Boston Harbor, they used to leave the bodies of executed criminals hanging for the incoming sailors to see. We could do with a bit of that today.

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By Anonymous on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 4:16pm.

Why, have we had trouble with incoming sailors?

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By anon on Wed, 11/18/2009 - 12:56am.

can't people keep comments like this to themselves?

i knew one of these kids... we went to middle school together. no matter what he did, and if he actually did it or not, its an insult & no one deserves that.

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By Jesse Helms on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 4:31pm.

Were any of the shooters or shootee's white?

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By Anonymous on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 4:32pm.

Jesse, you died a year ago yesterday.

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By sheenaspleena on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 4:32pm.

and on your way to hell?

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By Anonymous on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 4:36pm.

Bono recruited Jesse to help with fighting AIDS in Africa. It was Jesse Helms who convinced W to allocated millions of US cash over many years to provide medicine and education to slow the epidemic.

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By sheenaspleena on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 4:41pm.

he's crap

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By Anonymous on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 5:18pm.

But I don't rely on South Park to inform my opinions about people.

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By sheenaspleena on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 5:20pm.

they're on target with a lot:
Mel Gibson
Scientologists
Mormons
Tom Cruise
the To Catch A Predator show
Robert Smith

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By anony moose cow ard on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 10:05am.

Um, Saddam, Jesus(?), everyone else?

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By Anonymous on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 5:28pm.

The fact remains, if Bono had not recruited Helms, and Helms had not convinced Bush, millions more people in this world would have contracted aids and died from it, so crap or not crap, Bono's activism has had measurable positive effect on the world.

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By sheenaspleena on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 5:30pm.

that's a wicked simplified version of events.

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By Anonymous on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 5:31pm.

enlighten us

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By sheenaspleena on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 5:35pm.

"In his later years in the Senate, Helms proved that he was wasn't entirely inflexible. He worked with Democrats to restructure the foreign policy bureaucracy and pay back debts to the United Nations, an organization he disdained for most of his career. After years of clashes with gay activists, he softened his views on AIDS and advocated greater federal funding to fight the disease in Africa and elsewhere overseas, and in doing so, struck up an enduring and unlikely friendship with U2 frontman Bono"

iht.com...Obit-Helms.php

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By fenwayguy on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 9:33pm.

Helms didn't "soften his views on AIDS." His overdue "concern" only stemmed from the fact that the pattern of transmission in Africa is primarily male-female, a compassion that didn't extend to gay men with the disease.

To quote the Guardian's obit, "It is hard even now to think of him with charity." Beyond that, I'll let Dan Savage speak for me.

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By Anonymous on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 5:42pm.

Bono
TIME, By JESSE HELMS
Sunday, Apr. 30, 2006

When I was first told in 2000 that Bono wanted to meet with me to talk about boosting U.S. aid to Africa, I didn't know who he was. But my Senate staff certainly did. After so many years in Washington, I had met enough people to quickly figure out who is genuine and who is there for show. I knew as soon as I met Bono that he was genuine. He had his facts in hand and didn't have any agenda other than doing all he could to help people in desperate need.

Along with Franklin Graham, Bono, 45, helped me understand the scope of the tragedy in Africa, especially the pain it is bringing to infants and children and their families. Once I understood, I made both men a promise that I would do all I could to help. Senator Bill Frist and I were allies in creating and passing a bill to commit $200 million to fight AIDS in Africa. The challenges are still enormous, but I think there can be a very good future for Africa if the cycles of death, poverty and armed conflict can be overcome.

I admire Bono's dedication and his willingness to make decisions. There is no pretense about him. In fact, he has opened himself up to criticism because he has been willing to work with anyone to find help for these children. After our first meeting, he invited me to be his guest at a U2 concert. My grandchildren were only too happy to come along. Bono enjoys telling people that I said watching the audience swaying to the music reminded me of a cornfield rustling in the wind. It was also a reminder of the millions he manages to touch every day with his music and his heart.
LINK

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By adamg on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 6:42pm.

This one hits a little close to home, because when I need something late at night, that's the store I go to (granted, not at 2 a.m., but still).

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By Cleary Squared on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 8:31pm.

I avoid that Store 24 during the night. During the daytime it's not bad, except when the school kids from the Rogers and Hyde Park High stop to get their sugar-laden treats, hang out and shoot the breeze/harass customers/block the doors and go home, but at night, all the loonies come out like roaches. It attracts a pretty rough crowd after 9pm, and where all the other stores close at 11pm or so, it's the last resort until the other stores open again at 5am.

Are there other 24 hour convenience stores closer to you than Store 24?

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By adamg on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 8:57pm.

Which is where I guess I'll be driving from now on, when I need something at midnight (hmm, there's also a L'il Peach or something down in Rozzie Square, but if I'm going to go for safety, might as well go to the place that's right next to a police station). Too bad, because that Store 24 is our closest all-night convenience store (we're in Roslindale, but Hyde Park starts, oh, six or seven houses down from us).

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