Guns

Man in busted car in Mattapan charged for the guns and drugs police say they found in it

By adamg - 7/24/21 - 10:56 am

Suspect being walked into police station. Photo by Live Boston.

Boston Police report arresting a man on various gun and drug charges early Friday after officers conducting a standard inventory search of his undriveable car found two loaded guns, marijuana, crack and pills believed to be Xanax. Read more.

Four arrested after string of armed robberies downtown

By adamg - 7/23/21 - 7:47 pm

Suspect under arrest. Photo by Live Boston.

Boston Police report officers added to downtown patrols after recent armed robberies in the State Street area came across a dozen people loitering in front of "No Trespassing" signs in the plaza at Milk and India streets around 3:20 a.m. and arrested two on gun charges, one on drug charges and a fourth on an outstanding larceny warrant. Read more.

Teen charged in connection with shooting in Almont Park in Mattapan

By adamg - 7/21/21 - 9:35 am

Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old in connection with a barrage of gunfire in Almont Park that sent somebody to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his arm. A second suspect managed to flee the scene. Read more.

Gunfire leads to two arrests in South Boston

By adamg - 7/21/21 - 9:27 am

Suspect being frisked. Photo by Live Boston.

Boston Police report arresting two men for an incident that left a parking lot on C Street littered with spent shells and at least three cars damaged by gunfire. Read more.

Guy on motorcycle sought for quadruple shooting in Dorchester earlier this month

By adamg - 7/20/21 - 10:07 pm

Boston Police have released photos of a man on a motorcycle they say shot four men on Cameron Street on July 10. Read more.

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Person shot in the arm at Almont Park in Mattapan

By adamg - 7/19/21 - 11:02 pm

Crime scene at Favre Street entrance to Almont Park. Photo by Gavin Schoch

Update: One suspect arrested.

Gavin Schoch reports somebody was shot in the arm around 5:30 p.m., apparently at the Favre Street entrance to Almont Park, although police found the victim on the other side of the park, on Almont Street.

Chelsea man was just chilling in an East Boston park with a loaded gun in his fanny pack, police say

By adamg - 7/18/21 - 1:53 pm

Boston Police report the arrest of a 19-year-old Chelsea man early this morning, not because he was sitting in the stands at American Legion Playground in East Boston, even though he shouldn't have been, but because of the loaded firearm they say he had with him. Read more.

Police: Teen shows up at East Boston park with a loaded gun; might have gotten away, but he tripped running across the street and the gun went flying

By adamg - 7/17/21 - 11:05 pm

Boston Police report arresting a 14-year-old on various gun charges after an incident Friday night in Lombardi Park in East Boston. Read more.

Two shot in separate attacks a couple blocks apart in Cambridge

By adamg - 7/16/21 - 9:12 am

Cambridge Police report two people were shot in the Port overnight - one around 11:15 p.m. on Washington Street, the other around 4:30 a.m. a couple blocks away at Broadway and Windsor Street. Read more.

Four shot near Mildred Hailey spot where police arrested a kid for a Mission Hill shooting hours earlier

By adamg - 7/15/21 - 9:32 pm

A man was shot in the leg on Parker Street or Horan Way in the Mildred Hailey Apartments around 9:10 p.m. and as he was showing up at a local ER, three other victims were turning up as well. Read more.

Turns out a trash barrel isn't really a good place to hide from police

By adamg - 7/15/21 - 9:35 am

One of the suspects in custody. Photo by Live Boston.

Boston Police report arresting two men on drug and gun charges on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury Monday night - one after he was pulled out of the trash can police say he tried hiding in. Read more.

Man brought a gun to a fistfight in Charlestown, although he didn't use it, police say

By adamg - 7/14/21 - 11:04 am

Boston Police report arresting two of five men involved in a Tuesday afternoon slugfest in Charlestown, one of whom they say had a backpack with a loaded gun in it. Read more.

Judge orders alleged gun-toting Moorish sovereign citizen from Dorchester held without bail until his trial - assuming he's ruled competent for one

By adamg - 7/12/21 - 9:39 pm

A federal judge in Boston ruled today that Pepo Herd El, arrested last November after he got off a bus at Ruggles while allegedly wearing body armor and packing a loaded gun, three full magazines and a knife, is unlikely to stick around for a trial and has proven enough of a potential risk to society that she had no choice but to order him locked up at least until a verdict is read. Read more.

Person shot on Smith Street on Mission Hill

By adamg - 7/12/21 - 9:10 am

Shortly after 8:15 p.m. on Sunday, Stanley Stacos reports.

The Globe reports the victim was the tenth person shot in Boston over the weekend.

Man with decades-long violent record returns to his old Hyde Park haunts and is arrested on charges he menaced two men with a gun

By adamg - 7/11/21 - 11:44 pm

The gun in question.

Boston Police report arresting Dijuan Jackson, 46, of Dorchester, Saturday night after he allegedly threatened two men with a gun on Lewiston Street at Ellard Road, near Ross Playground in Hyde Park. Read more.

A man police say was shot during a struggle over a gun on Washington Street at the Roslindale/Forest Hills line was ordered held without bail at least until a dangerousness hearing - at which he could be ordered held even longer - on July 14, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Two shot on Harold Street in Roxbury

By adamg - 7/5/21 - 9:56 am

Stanley Stacos reports they were shot on Harold Street near Crawford Street - less than a half mile from where somebody would be murdered about an hour later.