Boston Police report arresting two men and a teenager on charges they stole an Uber Eats delivery person's car at gunpoint on Archdale Road in Roslindale's Archdale development shortly before 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
Boston murders This year's murders (also see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)
Woman found dead in apartment on Claybourne Street in Dorchester
2/3/25 - 2:45 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman found dead of stab wounds inside 43 Claybourne St. in Dorchester around 2:45 p.m. on Monday.
Man, his dog found dead at a houseboat in Charlestown
2/2/25 - 10:43 pm
Update: Police say Joseph Donohue, 65, was stabbed repeatedly.
Boston Police report they are investigating the suspicious death of a man on a houseboat at the Charlestown Marina off Shipway Place in Charlestown. Read more.
Person shot to death in Mattapan
1/30/25 - 10:31 pm
Boston Police report Leroy S. Ryner, 18, of Roxbury, was fatally shot at at Morton and West Selden streets in Mattapan around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
Man charged with repeatedly stabbing husband of South End woman he was trying to rob; suspect also stabbed, police say
1/29/25 - 5:30 pm
A Malden man who followed a woman to her South End home then tried to rob her at her door stabbed her husband repeatedly, only to get stabbed himself before he fled yesterday afternoon, police say. Read more.
Woman stabbed on Polk Street in Charlestown
1/25/25 - 11:40 pm
A woman was stabbed in an apartment at 25 Polk St. in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development around 11:40 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
Man shot to death on Ridgewood Street in Dorchester
1/21/25 - 7:23 pm
Victim identified as Kareem DaVeiga-Booth, 20, of Brighton.
A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.
Man shot in the abdomen at Mildred Hailey Apartments
1/21/25 - 9:04 pm
A man was shot in the area of Heath and Walden streets in Jamaica Plain shortly after 9 p.m. A few minutes later, police found the victim at 26 Heath St. - in a Mildred Hailey apartment. Read more.
15-year-old with a loaded gun was being ferried around Mattapan and Dorchester by another teen without a license, police say
1/20/25 - 4:19 pm
Man stabbed in the stomach and leg in the South End, but police found him in Allston
1/19/25 - 4:00 am
Boston Police are investigating a stabbing early this morning in the Castle Square apartment complex on Tremont Street in the South End. Read more.
Driver slams into two pedestrians, killing one, then takes off, on Washington Street in Roxbury
1/18/25 - 8:30 pm
Police are looking for a dark SUV whose driver they say hit two pedestrians on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets, then drove away, around 8:30 p.m. Read more.
Braintree man charged with sex trafficking at South Bay hotel
1/13/25 - 8:18 pm
Boston Police detectives keeping tabs on prostitution at Mass and Cass by browsing online sex-for-hire ads spotted a woman they knew as "a victim of exploitation and violent assaults" arranged a "date" with her trafficker at the Holiday Inn Express on Boston Street and then arrested him when both people drove up Monday night, police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. Read more.
Two stabbed outside Mattapan Square club
1/13/25 - 2:15 am
Two men were found stabbed outside Macumba Latina, 477 River St. in Mattapan Square, around 2: 15 a.m. Because of the severity of one of the victim's injuries, the homicide unit was called in.
Police say they didn't let a sleeping motorist lie; instead they woke him up and arrested him for the loaded gun they say was in his armrest
1/10/25 - 9:37 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man they say was asleep behind the wheel of a car on Warren Street near Whiting Street shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Friday - but not for excessive tiredness. Read more.
Clerk at Dorchester Avenue market stabbed in the stomach in robbery; nearby eyeglass place has rock thrown through window
1/9/25 - 8:47 pm
Boston Police report they are looking for a man they say stabbed a clerk in the stomach at O'Brien's Market and Deli, 1660 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester, around 8:45 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
Marcella Street in Roxbury raked with gunfire; houses, cars hit, but no people
1/9/25 - 3:30 am
Around 3:30 a.m., somebody fired as many as a dozen rounds along Marcella Street in Roxbury between Highland and Centre streets - but with shell casings also found on the other side of Centre on New Heath Street and on Centre up past New Heath. Read more.
Police launch crackdown on scourge of illegal Newports sold behind the Grove Hall Stop & Shop
1/4/25 - 12:35 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was selling bootleg Newport cigarettes and illegal weed out of his car behind the Stop & Shop at 468 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall. Read more.
Barricaded man in Hyde Park taken into custody after firing a shot; police evacuated neighboring homes
1/6/25 - 3:36 am
A man armed with a rifle and a shotgun burst into his parents' home on Hopewell Road in Hyde Park around 3:35 a.m., fired at least one shot at arriving officers, then barricaded himself in until officers were able to take him into custody, unharmed, around 9:10 a.m. Read more.
Growing teens need their sleep, but police say three learned the parking lot of the Roslindale Wendy's isn't the best place for a snooze when you've stolen a car and have a loaded gun
1/4/25 - 1:58 am
Boston Police report arresting three teens they say they found in a stolen car and seizing a gun loaded with nine bullets and the wallet of the car's owner, in the parking lot of the Wendy's at American Legion Highway and Walk Hill Street in Roslindale early Saturday. Read more.
