Shortly after midnight, two people got themselves into the Boston Medical Center emergency room, one shot, one stabbed - just as victims were arriving by ambulance from the quintuple shooting at the Franklin Field development. They told police it happened somewhere on Massachusetts Avenue in Newmarket Square.
Dorchester
By adamg - 5/28/20 - 12:08 am
Shortly before midnight at at 5 Ames St., between Ames Way and Westview Street. Read more.
By adamg - 5/27/20 - 10:58 am
A federal judge yesterday gave Joquentz Constant, 24, of Dorchester, one last chance to turn his life around: He freed Constant from federal custody after he'd spent nearly 19 months behind bars awaiting trial and then sentencing on a gun charge, on condition Constant live with his former Marine brother in Brighton, who said he will support and guide Constant as he earns his GED and works toward a permanent full-time job - with help from Constant's other brother, an Army lieutenant. Read more.
By adamg - 5/27/20 - 9:11 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports the death this week of Keith Love, co-headmaster of the Dorchester high school, of prostate cancer.
By adamg - 5/24/20 - 9:54 pm
Around 9:45 p.m. a man was shot in the arm on Vesta Road near Harvard Street. A few minutes later, another person was shot in the upper chest and the upper arm on Harvard Avenue, about three-quarters of a mile down Harvard Street.
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By adamg - 5/23/20 - 11:20 pm
Boston Police report arresting Jose Carrucini, 20, of Dorchester today for the murder of Admilson Ribeiro, 21, of Dorchester, on Feb. 5 on Magnolia Street.
Innocent, etc.
By adamg - 5/22/20 - 10:09 pm
Shortly after 10 p.m. A car was found crashed into a pole and abandoned just down Mather Street not long after.
By adamg - 5/22/20 - 9:18 am
Boston Police report arresting Yaliek Allah-Barnes, 37, of Mattapan, for the May 18 murder of Derek Fitzpatrick on Bernard Street in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 5/20/20 - 9:26 pm
The gun and bullets in question. Source.
A federal judge today sentenced Jovani Miranda, 28, to less time than prosecutors had asked to send him a message after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition but more time than his lawyer said was warranted for somebody who grew up on the mean streets of Dorchester and felt he needed a gun for self protection. Read more.
By adamg - 5/18/20 - 10:24 pm
At least six shots were fired into the Stop 'N' Gas, 970 Washington St., around 10:15 p.m., by a passenger in a car last seen heading down Gallivan towards Dorchester Avenue. Nobody hit.
By adamg - 5/18/20 - 9:35 pm
Seized guns and ammunition.
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on gun charges for the three illegal weapons and ammunition they say officers found in his apartment - where they initially went while following a blood trail after a knife fight in the parking lot of a nearby liquor store Saturday night. Read more.
By adamg - 5/17/20 - 2:24 pm
The Dorchester Reporter interviews state Rep. Liz Miranda (D-5th Suffolk) on her recovery, along with her father, who is now out of the hospital. Of 20 family members, 15 tested positive for the virus.
By adamg - 5/17/20 - 2:10 pm
Boston Police report gang-unit officers arrested a Mattapan man on gun and drug charges after hearing gunfire in the area of Sumner Street near Annapolis Street, in Dorchester around 8:35 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 5/16/20 - 9:29 pm
Update: Victim identified as Paul Richards, 56.
Boston Police report a man was shot outside 45 Bellevue St. around 7 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The scene is less than a half mile from where a knife fight ended with four stabbed.
By adamg - 5/16/20 - 8:56 pm
At Hancock and Trull streets, around 8:45 p.m, in a knife fight. Police found one victim on the third floor of a nearby house, and a second outside - and then a car drove up to a local emergency room with two more stabbing victims.
By adamg - 5/15/20 - 10:56 am
The city and Massachusetts General Hospital today released results from the recent random Covid-19 testing in East Boston, Roslindale and part of Dorchester: 9.9% of the people tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies - and that roughly 1 in 40 people with no symptoms were currently infected with the virus and so potentially infectious themselves. Read more.
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