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Police hunt group for Red Line attack that left victim needing surgery
By adamg on Fri, 06/01/2018 - 5:31pm
Surveillance photos of four suspects via TPD.
UPDATE: One arrest made, more expected.
Transit Police report they are looking for four people they say beat a man on a Red Line train early Monday after he asked them to leave his girlfriend alone.
According to police, the attack happened around 12:05 a.m. on Monday on an outbound train between Broadway and Andrew. The victim told police:
This group began harassing him and his girlfriend (unprovoked). When the victim requested they leave his girlfriend alone they physically beat and assaulted him. Victim sustained serious injury requiring surgery.
If any of them look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous tip to 873873 (tips can also be sent via the anonymous feature on Transit Police's SeeSay app).
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These are great photos.
Someone will recognize them and turn these thugs in.
Let's hope so.
:)
Good sign
Always a sign of classy people..
Thank you Adam for correctly identifying these perps
for what they are - SUSPECTS. I for one am sick and tired of how police departments and the media continually use the phrase "person(s) of interest" to describe people like this.
And here's hoping somebody will recognize them and inform the TPD of their whereabouts.
Why do you care?
They are all legally innocent until proven guilty.
The Duterte worship is strong with this one ...
Is there a button that we can
Is there a button that we can click on to give a comment a thumbs down?
No no
Civilization will fall if the proper distinction is not made between "suspects" and "persons of interest". After all, can you imagine Captain Reynaud saying "round up the usual persons of interest" ?
Besides, this profound judgement was prefaced by the immortal words "I for one am sick and tired", always a sure sign of an unshakeable moral authority.
Actually I say that myself sometimes, but I usually just stop there. It doesn't have quite the same ring.
There is a difference
A person of interest might have information to solve the crime and make an arrest. The may or may not end up being suspects, but until law enforcement can talk to them, they won't know. A person of interest could be the driver of a car that drove by a crime and might be able to shed some light on the crime, too.
Yep
Like after that poor guy got killed by a hit-run driver in Mattapan, authorities said they were looking for the driver of a cab spotted in the area - but they made it clear they were looking for him as a witness and specifically said video showed he had nothing to do with the crash.
Compare to the "not wanted at this time" photos they released related to a Dorchester store robbery that showed a guy grabbing and running with a cash register - just like the guy they said had robbed the place.
As an old timer I remember...
...AG's 'innocent until...' tag. Maybe they are 'allegedly suspects of interest' or something.
I don't care what they're called, I'm just happy that the quality of the stills from the vids is improving.
These folks are easily recognizable.
Maybe I watch too many crime
Maybe I watch too many crime dramas, but notice the guy in the left photo is on his phone. Does technology exist that they can trace all incoming and outgoing calls, texts, etc from that station and match it with the time stamp of the image?
TV
Sure on TV it can be done, but it seldom is (I know a "SVU" detective, so I asked one day about his thoughts on the TV show.. he had an interesting prospective btw)
But technological (I'm an IT Person).. sounds doable. Esp inside train stations. Since its a repeater system, I wonder if that system keeps logs of what it IMEI 's it relays...
The nsa
Knows what the nsa knows
Yes, the technology exists
and I am quite sure there is a database out there that has the necessary information to narrow down the suspect pool.
But it's a terrible thing that it's out there, quite frankly, and is a threat to us all.
Where are the Transit police?
Where are the Transit police? There is so much crime on the trains.
Oh, the Governor of our Third World State is fine with no quality of life for mot MA residents.
The MBTA is a moving crime scene.
Legally,
A person of intereat doesn't require a Miranda reading.
Terms
I'm not a lawyer, but (another classic opening phrase) I don't think these are legally defined terms. They are descriptive terms; you are probably right about what they describe. If somebody isn't given a Miranda warning, information they give can't be used against them if they are later charged. If they are given a warning, it can be. However giving someone the warning is not an accusation and doesn't imply suspicion; it may just mean that the police are being careful.
Not that I feel any need to issue a warning before I declare these Persons of No Interest a sorry set of fucktards, rat-bastards, and asshats. I can do that, because I am not possessed of police powers. Thank God.
It’s baffling that out of 4
It’s baffling that out of 4 young adults, not one person said “Guys, we’re taking it to far.” Hopefully, the people responsible for them have more class and do the right thing by turning them in. Hopefully...
not that baffling
The herd mentality, even in a small herd, is real. There is also the more likely possibility that all four of them are simply pieces of shit.
Maybe....
They were at a sports event, did the celtics play? They're wearing shirts and lanyards that might place them somewhere before the attack, Maybe they were at the game.....maybe there are cameras at the garden....maybe they used credit cards to buy their seats........
Red Sox
There was a Red Sox game that day and the lanyards look like Sox tickets.
Calling the Transit Police where are you
I can understand the inability of the Transit Police to respond to incidents in the suburbs but I can't understand their failure to respond to Andrew when their Headquarters on Southampton street is a few hundred feet from Andrew station.
Do you know where the Hyde Park police station is?
Because it is closer to the La Familia barber shop than the Andrew T station is from the Transit Police Station is, yet someone stabbed someone else to death at the barber shop then ran away. As in it’s walking distance for people out of shape.
Or to make it clearer, relative distance doesn’t mean much in relation to the ability of criminals to leave after committing a crime.
One major DIFFERENCE
BPD was on the scene in minutes and made an arrest.
Well ...
The guy turned himself in.
And when did the Transit Police arrive in this situation?
And for that matter, how do you know when the police arrived at either of these?
And as Adam notes, after the police arrived, the suspect called someone in the shop on their cell phone and indicated that he was willing to come to the station and talk to the police. That would kind of indicate that he was gone by the time the police got there.