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Cambridge man, Dorchester teen charged with armed home invasion gone bad in Brookline
By adamg on Thu, 01/28/2016 - 10:41am
Antonio Brown Jr., 27, of Cambridge and Khari Wilcox, 18, of Dorchester were arrested following the armed home invasion gone wrong at 198 St. Paul St., Brookline Police Chief Daniel O'Leary announced this morning.
The driver of the stolen rental getaway car and another person remain on the lam, O'Leary said.
Brown and Wilcox were charged with armed home invasion, armed assault in a dwelling, attempted robbery, attempted murder and illegal possession of a firearm, O'Leary said, adding they were arrested in the hospital rooms where they are recuperating from stabbing - and in one case gunshot - injuries allegedly received during the home invasion.
O'Leary said the four men went to an apartment at 198 St. Paul St. late yesterday morning to rob the occupant of a particular apartment, possibly of drugs. "That's one of the theories we're looking at," he said at a press conference, adding the resident was "targeted."
But the occupant fought back.
He was shot repeatedly in the leg, O'Leary said, declining to say who shot him. Both Brown and Wilcox got stabbed; one of them was also shot.
All three are in stable condition at local hospitals, he said.
The four men then fled in a rental car stolen in Cambridge. The two injured men were dumped at 75 Harvard St. The car was later recovered on St. Botolph Street, near Symphony Hall in Boston, he said.
O'Leary added that police worked with three nearby schools to lock them down - and to have teachers draw shades so students wouldn't have to see what was going on outside.
Innocent, etc.
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Attention residents of Brookline!
You are now safe to return to your Starbucks and froyo!
Not for nothing...
Don't let the fact that the initial shooting is within 4 blocks of over 350 units of Brookline Housing Authority owned public housing shatter your world view, mkay?
Oh, please
350 units in a town of 60,000 people? Have you even been to SoBro?
*Ahem*
I guess this means my non-WASP buddies are going to be pulled over more driving through Brookline....
WASP?
You apparently aren't familiar with Brookline.
You are exhibiting ignorance
You are exhibiting ignorance by thinking and saying that the white people you think live in Brookline are White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASP).
Your point is that Brookline
Your point is that Brookline is a bunch of limousine liberal snobs that way under serve the needs for public housing compared to Boston and Cambridge?
Not at all, my simplistic friend
I bet Brookline actually does fairly well on the low-income scale, especially when compared to neighboring Newton (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, though). But let's not pretend that the presence of low-income housing automatically means Brookline is some murderous hellhole where this sort of thing happens all the time.
The point is for a bleeding
The point is for a bleeding heart town full of people which insist other's provide a fair share of resources, Brookline sure as Hell isn't supporting a fair share of public housing for the needy.
Newton is the same way. Going atomic over a tiny transit oriented 40b project while busing their homeless into Boston.
What the hell does any of it have to do with public housing?
Uhh....what the hell does this crime have to do with public housing in Brookline???
Say what you mean to say, but say in coded language like "public housing"....this was a crime caused by undesirable minorities who should be confined to Blue Hill Ave, not Brookline. Quit dancing around your linguistic codes. If you have a problem with low-income minorities, who are the ones who tend to live in public housing, and the "crime" you think they might bring to Brookline Billionaire Row, come out and say that. The fact is, if this HAD taken place on Blue Hill Ave, no one in Brookline would be looking it up on their iphones to read about it. But yeah, let's jump to blaming the poors who can't afford a two bedroom for 800k in Brookline.
Why the misleading numbers then? You're baiting that response.
I agree that the proximity to low-income housing is irrelevant, but your comment, "Oh please, 350 units in a town of 60,000 people?" most certainly does imply that Brookline doesn't offer more low-income housing, which is completely inaccurate.
No need for insults. Your argument was poorly formed.
It does?
Where? Other than that one complex mostly populated by white grandmas and grandpas, i'm not aware of any.
Off the top of my head
Juniper and High/Chestnut St. are two other examples of low-income housing. I know this first-hand. No idea why you brought up age or race.
No
Brookline has roughly 8.5 percent affordable housing (a la 40B laws). Of all of that housing, 350+ units are within four blocks of 198 St. Paul St.
Brookline is not an 8 block by 8 block town with 198 St. Paul at the epicenter.
198 St. Paul Street ain't the projects
You should go visit, check the area out. It's a nice area, and like other nice areas, there is a chance that a drug dealer might live in one of the apartments. And there is a chance that someone might try to rob him, using violence.
If that area is your idea of what a dangerous neighborhood is like, I'd love to visit where you live.
Yep
Somebody needs to learn that drug dealers don't necessarily live in low income neighborhoods. In fact, they use their money to pay for "nicer" places.
Don't want a home invasion? Don't deal drugs. No matter where you are. That is the risk factor right there.
I don't think that was the point...
Original poster seemed to imply that Brookline residents are wealthy pearl clutchers, follow-up comment was pointing out that there is actually some diversity to the population.
At least that's how I read it, but what do I know? I grew up in Brookline.
Maybe
I suppose it could be read different ways. I saw it as being that the crime was related to the nearby "projects," which of course are like most apartment buildings.
It ain't "the projects"
I live three blocks away. Of those 350+ affordable units within that radius, I'm fairly certain a large portion is senior housing, and thus doesn't have quite the population of undesirables implied by OP.
Oh, I agree
Though if you are thinking about the housing over by Commonwealth Avenue, there are non seniors living there.
Of course, one never hears about problems in those units, so there you go.
A punch right in the pinkberry
A couple things here
-No one calls it SoBro. Crap realtors maybe six years ago, but no one who lives in any part of does.
-In Brookline, if you look at the real estate value, and the median income, a family making less than 200K
is on the lower end of the income scale. Brookline does have pockets of affordable housing, and rents used to be more reasonable
(I'll blame college students for the rents going up)
-Brookline is a great town, generally safe, but as a resident, I feel like some of the older folks there, esp ones in power, care
more about banning styrofoam / plastic bags then trying to deal with issues like homeless begging for change (usually this is due)
to the church in the village doing alot of donation type stuff / homeless meals then the people stick around and ask for change.
Now, if you want to talk race, and say what you like about the Brookline PD, if you read crime reports, some of the robberies or
whatnot have the same description "Black male with a hoodie" - so people in Brookline want to be all 'lets stand against racism!'
but really, more ofen than not, who is committing the crime? Is Brookline lilly white? Gosh no, alot of the old residents are
but there are many asians (including my own family) make up the younger segments. People want to talk about diversity, and
the reality is, that means poor black kids from Hyde Park and JP to take up spaces in the schools for people who pay to
live in Brookline, and already are of color, so why push more faux diversity?
Yes, Brookline is full of white people problems, like old nuts waving peace flags, protesting infront of the women's health clinic
and ensuring the hot coffee seeps out of the crappy plastic cup into my hand because styrofoam is bad, but the underlying problem
is policing the ciy better. If it were me, banish anyone pan handling, install more cameras to catch people quicker
who are vandalizing or putting up graffiti, and eliminate the metco program.
Folks here will roll their eyes, try to niptpick my grammar or a typo, or think I am racist, but those of us who live in Brookline
live there for the safety, amenities and poor people, criminals, and folks in the METCO program aren't really enhancing that. I shouldn't
have to walk by a guy asking for change to bring my daughter to school, or put up with ghetto 'man-spreading' and people who blast music
on their iphones on the bus. Everyone wants to blame insitutional racisim for why people act the way they do - I blame white guilt.
I actually hope it was a drug dealer whose home got invaded, one less person I need to worry about trying to deal it to my kids. I shouldn't have to apologize for working hard since I was a teen to deal with the ugliness people abide just to they can pretend to be diverse. Go into a Starbucks in West Roxbury and watch all the women put their purses in their laps when the loud black teens come in causing a ruckus.
I think you want to live in a bubble.
And you thought that was what you were paying for in Brookline.
Typical response - if I
Typical response - if I wanted that, I'd move to someplace like Dover but that's not my bag.
Saying "that is the way it is, deal with it' is a defeatest attitude. Maybe people should just learn not to be animals.
actually...
What bothers me most is your use of line breaks. In the last paragraph, you figured out that you're not using your old Selectric, so why did you overuse the Enter key in every other paragraph?
...and you are being racist, but who has time to worry about that?
Yeah everyone's a racist
for pointing out that the ghetto has problems, and even moreso for getting upset when said problems leak out of the ghetto. Just add one more to that growing list of microaggressions...
Huh.
I can't imagine why anyone would accuse you of something like that, unless--
Actually, yeah, come to think of it, I can think of a couple of reasons folks might take issues with some of your statements. If you want to live in a completely white town, I hear Iowa is nice this time of year. You might still encounter a panhandler or read about a robbery, though; it turns out that it's not exclusively young black men committing crimes! As an added bonus to the rest of us, Iowa is far enough away that there will be one fewer loudmouthed bigot for us to shoo our kids away from when we go shopping at Trader Joe's.