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Man with violent past who is best known for the way his young son died is one of two charged with Roxbury market holdup

Boston Police report the Warren Food Mart, 394 Warren St. was held up shortly after 6 p.m. on Tuesday by two men holding what turned out to be replica guns.

One of them, police say, is Liquarry Jefferson, 33, of Dorchester. Jefferson is best known as the father of an eight-year-old boy, also called Liquarry Jefferson, who died when his seven-year-old cousin accidentally shot him with a loaded gun they found in a bedroom dresser in 2007.

The the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says that because the guns allegedly used yesterday were not real, Jefferson and James Thornton, 40, of Dorchester, will be charged with armed robbery but not illegal weapons possession.

Jefferson was sentenced to three years for assault with a dangerous weapon in 2010, the DA's office reports.

He was also arrested in 2008 on armed-robbery charges after two store holdups in Jamaica Plain and Hyde Park, although his conviction for those was overturned in 2012.

Jefferson's record also includes beating his son's mother (with a barbell and belt) when she was two months pregnant with him (at the time, she was herself facing charges of stabbing Jefferson in the stomach). He also has convictions for manslaughter for helping another man stab a guy to death in 1997 and for a string of armed robberies.

Innocent, etc.

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One of those arrested was Liquarry Jefferson. Sad.

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That's probably a good thing.

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I'm sure this incident--and each of the many others in their long lists of crime--were just accidents and there is no reason they should be kept from roaming freely on the streets.

Great work, judicial system.

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Where is that idiot from yesterday who didn't see anything wrong with the MA justice system? How is a guy with a litany of serious felonies (manslaughter, stabbing, armed robbery, domestic assault, etc...) walking the streets with civilized society? This guy is a parasite POS, plain and simple. Put this MF'er in a cage, turn off the lights and throw away key.

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Let this be a shining example of how the penal system worked. Jefferson seems to have stopped possessing dangerous firearms which could kill his children or others.

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