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Man shot by police in Hyde Park was on probation for shooting at officers in Hyde Park in 2009
By adamg on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 1:30pm
UPDATE: Ordered held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on June 7.
John Mentor, 32, of Hyde Park, is scheduled for arraignment in West Roxbury court this afternoon on four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and various firearms offenses, because the leg wound he got after being shot by at least one officer yesterday evening was not serious enough to keep him in the hospital, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The DA's office says Mentor was in the process of shooting at two people he had beef with on Westminster Street near Ross Playground around 7:30 p.m. when BPD officers arrived on scene and ordered him to drop his .357 Smith & Wesson revolver. Instead, he pointed the gun at them, at which point the two officers opened fire, with at least one of them hitting him in the leg, prosecutors say.
According to the DA's office:
Assistant District Attorney Jess Megee of the DA’s Gang Unit told the court that Mentor gave a post-Miranda statement acknowledging that he possessed and discharged the firearm, a Smith & Wesson .357 revolver that was found with three empty shell casings and three live rounds in the cylinder. The victims gave separate accounts indicating that they had been walking on Westminster Street when a vehicle pulled alongside them, a male voice said, "that’s them," and a man meeting Mentor’s description jumped out and fired upon them
Mentor is already on probation for a 2009 incident in which he opened fire on officers who had stopped the car he was in at River Street and Gordon Avenue as part of a drug investigation. He missed, but as he was being pulled from the car, yelled "I should have killed all three of you motherfuckers" at the cops.
According to the DA's office, he was sentenced to 9 years in prison, followed by 10 years of probation. That incident occurred while he was on probation for a 2006 stabbing, which came a year after he was arrested for robbing teens on buses running out of Forest Hills.
Innocent, etc.
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seems like a real good guy...
I wonder if the judges in our city will do the right thing and keep this violent lowlife behind bars where he belongs.
from the 2006 incident / a violent previous record + illegal firearm + attempted murder of 3 Police Officers and he only got nine years?
unreal.
We keep hearing MA has the
We keep hearing MA has the "TOUGHEST GUN LAWS IN THE NATION!" and the legislature keeps passing more restrictions almost every year with grand proclamations and press conferences. So why are repeat violent offenders still walking around up doing more of the same? Why does it seem that criminals aren't being deterred or even punished by increasingly draconian laws?
Because the only people bothered by the gun laws
Are people like me. Legit taxpaying LTC-holders who jump through every hoop Healey and the legislature throws at us so we can continue to shoot trap or skeet or hunt.
Guys like this scum bag, they don’t realy seem to care about nearly as much.
Glad the cops got him. Betting he’s back on the street in about two years. But gawd help me if I buy a shotgun in Maine and forget to fill out the MA req’d paperwork within a week.
As an attorney and licensed
As an attorney and licensed firearms owner, I couldn't agree more. Unnecessary hassle and money from us, while thugs like this shoot at cops and get a slap on the wrist. And you can bet if we didn't cross our T's and dot our I's on our applications that we'd end up with more jail time then this fine young citizen.
We the people
Believe the BPD should of been the judges and put 1 between his eyes
Yeah, extrajudicial killing
Yeah, extrajudicial killing is great, who doesn't love that?
Bix
Just another Klansmen in need of a colonic.
BPD did the right thing. I
BPD did the right thing. I am proud of "My Fucking City" 's police department!!!!
The rest of us "we the people"
Know that´s called a human rights violation.
Another Duterte worshipper
Either read the constitution, act like an American, or move to some developing shithole with your macheeezmo nonsense.
Old men getting puffy over cheering the cops into being their personal racism valet murderers isn't cute - its pathetic.
Incorrect
"Believe the BPD should of been the judges and put 1 between his eyes"
Police officer only draws his weapon when the situation calls for the use of deadly force. Pointing a .357 S&W at a cop meets the requirement of the use of deadly force, I believe.
The SOP says he can shoot. Training is to shoot at the torso.
This guy should be dead. He's lucky.
We the People believe in plenty of practice time on Moon Island. It's not Dertitude if there's
probable(ED) reasonable cause to nail his ass.BPD training isn't to shoot when you say it is
Otherwise we'd have shootings everyday instead of BPD cops courageously getting guns off the streets without shooting people.
Are you new around here?
And another wrong anon.
"Are you new around here?"
Nope.
Here's what I said ,"Police officer only draws his weapon when the situation calls for the use of deadly force. Pointing a .357 S&W at a cop meets the requirement of the use of deadly force, I believe.
The SOP says he can shoot. Training is to shoot at the torso. "
So, ask a cop if that statement is correct.
You are confused about brave cops that wrestle guns, knives etc away from people.
They don't have to do that.
All over the country, cops shoot people with knives, etc. on a daily basis.
This was apparently a good shoot. But, the kid is lucky.
When a cop draws his pistol, the intent is to kill, not wound.