UPDATE: Arrest made.
Channel 4 reports the woman was shot repeatedly on the 20th floor; body found around 10 p.m.
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Some more details from the Herald
By adamg
Wed, 04/15/2009 - 10:15am
The Herald talks to a witness, also informs its readers from west of Worcester that the hotel is "in the heart of the city's high-end shopping district."
here's some idiotic, space-filler journalism...
By david_yamada
Wed, 04/15/2009 - 10:38am
...from the Herald story, attempting to make a point when there's no point to be made:
As in, so what?! If the previous homicide involved anything resembling the killing of someone working as a prostitute, then it's worth mentioning. But an event that occurred some 2 1/2 years ago, with a situation nothing like this one, leading to the inane comment that the area "is not immune to violent crime"? Sheeeeez. Send this reporter to write news for Channel 7.
Seems regular journalism...
By neilv
Wed, 04/15/2009 - 10:51am
...to look at history of crime in the area, to detect possible patterns that should be brought to public attention.
And I guess, once you've done that, it doesn't hurt to report what you found, since knowing that you found little-to-nothing is useful info too.
I just wouldn't have said "The area is not immune to violent crime," since that seems misleading from the actual facts, even if literally true.
Patterns?
By Sock_Puppet
Wed, 04/15/2009 - 2:01pm
Downstairs, cooks stab each other in the kitchen.
Upstairs, visitors shoot fancy whores.
Calling this a "possible pattern that should be brought to public attention" is reeeallly stretching it.
Once you've looked up previous incidents nearby, not using it would be ... wasting perfectly good irrelevant but sensational filler.
And if the teevee did that, what would it have left?
May have been attempted robbery, police say
By adamg
Wed, 04/15/2009 - 12:53pm
BPD statement:
She was 26, white, victim of repeated gunshot wounds to the torso.
Victim identified
By adamg
Thu, 04/16/2009 - 10:39am
Boston Police report she was Julissa Brisman, 26, of New York City.
That's a really uncommon name
By Ron Newman
Thu, 04/16/2009 - 11:04am
and someone with that name is [url=http://nearear.org/bio-brisman.html]an actress[/url] in NYC, appearing in [url=http://nearear.org/watch.html]this video[/url].
Julissa Brisman as an actress
By adamg
Thu, 04/16/2009 - 2:22pm
In an ad warning against walking into traffic while on your cellphone (Watch the actual ad).
poor kid
By david_yamada
Thu, 04/16/2009 - 2:42pm
From some of the news coverage (http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/200...), it sounds like she had her demons to deal with but was a good person at heart.
Julissa, not Juliana
By Ron Newman
Thu, 04/16/2009 - 8:53pm
Fixed
By adamg
Thu, 04/16/2009 - 9:27pm
Thanks.