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Hyde Park teen arrested for shot that injured Mission Hill boy
By adamg on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 8:47pm
Boston Police report charging Richard Penha, 18, of Hyde Park, with shooting the bullet that went through a 7-year-old boy playing outside on Mission Hill last week.
Penha's cousin, Kenny Francois, 18, also of Hyde Park, was arrested last week.
Police charge that after getting shot by a guy on a bicycle on Tremont Street, Penha, instead of seeking medical attention, went after the guy, with Francois in the passenger seat. Police say the two found the bicycling thug on Sewall Street and opened fire, starting a gunfight in which a stray bullet hit the boy. Police said today the boy remains in Boston Medical Center, in stable condition. The bike thug remains at large. After the shootout, police say, Penha did seek medical attention.
Ed. puzzled note: What's up with Hyde Park? Couple these two arrests with the teen murdered on July Fourth, the four guys shot at a Tedeschi, the River Street Mini-Mart holdup and the gun-shooting Fairmount Hill low-riders and all of a sudden you could start to think it's a violent neighborhood.
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Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder that too...
You'd never, ever see or hear of this level of random, self-indulgent, rivalrous violence and crime in Hyde Park two decades ago, or even 15 years ago. The only yobs we had to deal with were the "Park Kids," and everyone in Hyde Park knew them enough to stay away. E-18 cops knew who they were too and made sure their hijinks didn't get out of control - and comparing it to the incidents we have now, they're pretty freakin' benign. (Of course, they've grown up, and I occasionally see one or two of the former Park Kids around.)
The press, however, shouldn't make Hyde Park out to be the next Intervale St or Grove Hall. Certain areas, however, deem much more police attention from E-18, such as River Street and Wood Avenue. Those areas have always been notorious for violence, and are NOT for casual travel.
River Street runs through all of Hyde Park
including Cleary Square. Are you telling me that I should not ride my bike or walk on any part of this street? That would seem to be tantamount to saying that people shouldn't visit at all.
Not for casual travel means use your head when in the area
Ron:
Actually, you will find Hyde Park, on the whole, to be much safer. It hasn't lost its working class charm and hasn't been invaded by Allston/Brighton students looking for places to trash. Hyde Parkers are a feisty lot and would have them on the first commuter rail train back to Boston.
The area I'm alluding to (and forgive me for not being specific) is between the 800 block of River St near the railroad bridge and the 1100 block at Logan Square. There are some areas that have no problems at all, and even during the daytime Wood Avenue is not bad. With that in mind, the reason I said "not for casual travel" is that some people will go there and gawk, look for trouble, etc. The area I just described is not for thrillseekers or the "crazy brave."
After the 1200 block all the way to the Dedham Line, or from the 0 block at Lower Mills to Mattapan Square, you should be fine.
As long as you are aware of your surroundings, and respect the people who live there, Hyde Park will pose no problems for a walk or a bike ride.
Danger-seeking tourists?
I'm not a daily visitor to that stretch of River Street (in fact, when you mentioned "the railroad bridge," at first I thought you meant the one by the commuter station), but the times I have been there, I can't recall ever seeing anybody there who didn't look like they belonged there.
Plus, it has Hyde Park's only Thai food :-).
Dear Editor What happened to
Dear Editor
What happened to Hyde Park? Busing. Live with it.
Get off this
Even Judge Garrity died quite a while ago.
Most of these thugs were decades from being born when busing took place. Many were not born anywhere near where they wreak mayhem.
Recent changes are no more due to busing than the recent run-up in housing prices was due to the Civil War or the recent spate of thunderstorms was caused by the Baby Boom starting to retire. Busing is long over, and can no longer be an all purpose excuse for 1) avoiding any and all change when change is inevitable and 2) not dealing with real problems using current information.
The people who moved out
The people who moved out didn't shoot each other in the streets. If they were still there now, this shit wouldn't be happening.
Wondering about hospital
The Globe says this poor 7-year old kid ran to Smith St before collapsing. Thankfully, he's in stable condition, but I wonder why he would be taken to Boston Med. Ctr. when it's twice as far as say, Brigham & Women's, or Childrens?
Anyone know?
There is no such thing as "stable" conditon.
According to the American Hospital Association "Stable" is not a condition.
OK
Thanks for the link. After consulting the AHA resource, I see that stable appears in two of their patient description/conditions: good and fair. I don't want to speculate, but in order to do my duty to correct the Globe's report, I guess I'll say the patient was listed in "fair" condition.
My question remains... better trauma unit, perhaps, or what? I do not understand what determined where this victim was taken.
Not a clue, really
But BMC does have a reputation as the go-to place for shooting injuries, for better or worse.
$75,000 cash bail for Penha
Held in lieu of ...
The Suffolk County DA's office had asked for $500,000 cash bail.