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Two 15-year-olds rob 9-year-old at gunpoint in Intervale Street playground, DA says

By adamg on Fri, 07/26/2024 - 10:02pm

Two 15-year-olds were ordered held without bail after they were arrested on charges for holding up a pre-teen waiting for a cookout at the Children's Park playground at Intervale and Fernboro streets in Dorchester Thursday evening, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

A judge ordered the two teens held until at least dangerousness hearings on Tuesday, the DA's office says.

According to the DA's office, the boy was at the playground around 6:35 p.m. when "he was approached by two males and robbed of his cellphone at gun point."

Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Guns
Intervale Street
Fernboro Street
Children's Park


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Comments

By robo on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 7:10am.

This has to be one of the saddest things I’ve read in a while. For a cell phone? They’re not even worth anything anymore and are easily traced.

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By necturus on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 9:58am.

They are flooding our communities with guns. Damn them all.

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By robo on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 11:36am.

And the war on guns won’t either.

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By Kinopio on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 10:15pm.

We can tell you’ve never left America and are unaware that no other first world country has so much gun violence. Educate yourself before you continue to spread misinformation.

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By robo on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 10:50pm.

Ok, what’s the number of gun deaths by licensed gun owners in the US in the last year? What’s the number of deaths by unlicensed gun owners in the US in the last year?

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By brianjdamico on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 11:08pm.

I can't find it.

Perhaps the lack of compressive data on firearms related issues was compounded by the 20+ years that the Dickey Amendment kept the CDC from using federal funds for the purpose of researching firearms related injuries (1996-2020). (1)

More than half of gun deaths in the US are by suicide. (2) It would not surprise me if a significant majority of those deaths were licensed owners.

Guns that start their time in circulation as lawfully owned end up being possessed by someone down the road who uses them in crimes. (3)

The ATF found that 54% of traced crime guns were recovered by law enforcement more than three years after their purchase. Those guns were legally purchased, but were later used in crimes, the report indicated.

"Crime guns may change hands a number of times after that first retail sale, and some of those transactions may be a theft or violate one or more regulations on firearm commerce," the ATF's report reflected.

(1) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/us/politics/gun-violence-research-cdc...

(2) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-ab...

(3) https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1153977949/major-takeaways-from-the-atf-g...

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By Plen-T-Pak on Sun, 07/28/2024 - 9:53am.

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By cybah on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 10:07am.

I am sure the suspects will be fine, well rounded, productive citizens as adults /s

Enjoy Prison teens, if not now.. soon after you become an adult because you won't stop doing this nonsense. I hope that cell phone was a nice one..

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By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 10:28am.

One would think that the system would put more energy into turning these kids into productive citizens because we all grew up with 15 year old fuckups who got it together, but, hey, 30 cents an hour in wages to manufacture crap and slap Made in America on it pleases our corporate overlords and keeps law abiding wages down.

Funny how that guy with the snowplow at Gillette Stadium got so many second chances (and finally made good on them) after his teen career culminated in an armed robbery. But we all know what the difference is.

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By bostnkid on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 1:19pm.

the work release guy? i’m confused

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By Hardy Har Har on Sat, 07/27/2024 - 1:57pm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowplow_Game

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By bostnkid on Sun, 07/28/2024 - 3:43pm.

i don’t understand swirls reference to it.

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By TiminSouthie on Mon, 07/29/2024 - 6:17am.

Was a convicted criminal on work release from Walpole.

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