Hammer man. Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police are seeking help to identify and capture somebody they say got out of a car at Columbia Road and Washington Street in Dorchester with a hammer and, without any provocation, bashed an elderly man in the shin around 1:50 p.m. on Sunday.
The hammer guy, described as black, in his 40s, 6 feet tall and 200 lbs., then got back in the car and fled, police say. The victim was taken to a local hospital.
The attacker was photographed with the hammer in front of 108 Columbia Rd., the apartment building directly across Washington from the Burger King.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-343-4275 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
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WTAF?
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 3:12pm
What a horribly strange thing to do.
It takes a
By cybah
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 4:02pm
It takes a special kind of person to jump out of a car and randomly hit an old man...
Yeah, I'm surprised he's not
By ZachAndTired
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 5:13pm
Yeah, I'm surprised he's not a cop.
Why?
By Lmo
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 10:54pm
Why?
Randomly?
By Bob Leponge
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 5:40pm
What makes you think it was random? (I have no reason to believe either that it was random or that it was targeted…)
the way it is written
By cybah
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 6:53pm
I'd like to think if the person knew the attacker, we'd have a name with the article.. If not, he didn't know who it was.
Or poor reporting on Adam's part (which I think is unlikely)
No particular reason to know your attacker
By Bob Leponge
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 10:18pm
... You piss off the wrong guy, who then sends a thug to smash your knee with a hammer, you're not necessarily gonna recognize the thug.
Good Lord
By MissDee
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 3:22pm
I can just imagine. At that intersection - possibly an argument about the light changing/right of way kind of confrontation. Could be something personal. Who knows.
Just wrong, period. Hopefully the gentleman will make a speedy recovery and anyone who knows this guy will turn him in or convince him to do so himself. Not safe for him to be roaming around if he did what is alleged.
Was there really no
By Notfromboston
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 4:17pm
Was there really no provocation? Pedestrians around here often don't yield to cars and being otherwise aggressive.
Just. No.
By MrZip
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 4:26pm
No traffic provocation could ever justify whacking a senior with a 20oz (maybe bigger!) ball peen hammer. Ever. MC Hammerhead was the aggressor. he's a sick puppy and needs to be kept away from society.
There's a difference between
By Refugee
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 5:46pm
There's a difference between justify and explain. Of course road rage does not justify escalation to violence, but it can explain it.
In too many reported incidents there's an avoidance to provide 'explanation', maybe out of fear of being called a victim blamer. This results in an increase in reporting of actual senseless violence. It also leads to an increase in claims of racism, facism, Trumpism, hate crimes, etc since those are simple explanations to latch on to, when you're missing the details about interpersonal encounters and conflicts that happen in society that sometimes escalate to violence due to bad temperaments.
omg
By anon
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 6:18pm
*hard eyeroll*
Exactly, not trying to
By Notfromboston
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 8:50pm
Exactly, not trying to justify this accident. I hope the guy gets the harshest continuation without finding that the Suffolk County has seen in recent years.
Yeah man
By fungwah
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 8:55pm
We shouldn't point to simple explanations like racism, fascism, Trumpism, when we can point to more complicated issues like "maybe someone was parking badly".
The word used was "provocation"
By lbb
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 9:11pm
The word used was "provocation", which is neither "justify" nor "explain", but is a lot closer to the former than to the latter.
The guy in the picture appears to be on the sidewalk
By fungwah
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 5:03pm
If a pedestrian was failing to yield to a car while on the sidewalk, I don't really see how that's the pedestrian's fault.
Provocation
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 9:26pm
Another word for "people can't possibly ever be expected to just fucking control their goddamn selves".
Especially male people.
Cars are supposed to yield to
By anon
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 11:11pm
Cars are supposed to yield to pedestrians, not the other way around
Momma get the hammer
By Hardy Har Har
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 5:02pm
There's a fly on Grandpa's leg
I’ll take one for the team
By BannedFromTheRoxy
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 8:31pm
Straight young black men need to do better. Stop beating your women and your lgbtq and have some respect
https://www.theroot.com/straight-black-men-are-the...
Do you realize how stupid this sounds?
By adamg
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 8:47pm
As a comment on this incident? Seriously? For starters, the suspect isn't young.
You know him?
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 8:53pm
I mean, you say he's straight, so ... TURN HIM IN!
Dude...
By lbb
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 9:12pm
Dude, I don't know where you're getting your insider information, but I'd say this guy's orientation is "deranged".
lol
By berkleealum
Sun, 06/27/2021 - 3:43pm
that you are *just* discovering this piece 4 years after its initial run around the internet is funny enough on its own.
then of course, that you didn’t bother to read it is just peak reactionary internet
Where is this "surveillance" camera?
By anon
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 9:59pm
The view is from public property - there's evidently a high-res camera hidden in the lamppost, filming the sidewalk and possibly people's windows at 108 Columbia? Not cool.
No Expectation of Privacy in Public
By 1st Amendment Guy
Sat, 06/26/2021 - 8:52am
There is no expectation of privacy in public. One could stand on a public sidewalk and use a camera to zoom into you window legally. This is a 1st Amendment Right. You are responsible for creating the privacy in your home not the public. Rights are very cool indeed.
I'd guess
By Don't Panic
Mon, 06/28/2021 - 12:28am
It's either from the apartment building or one of the many traffic lights at that intersection.