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311 complaint of the day: Steamed over the screeching start to the new year in Chinatown

A resident with ears covered filed a 311 complaint at 1:09 a.m. about the noise on Kneeland Street in Chinatown:

Very very loud, high pitched screeching sound coming from Vicinity Steam plant.


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Boston murders in 2024

Boston Police report a total of 24 murders in Boston in 2024 (23 people killed this year and one victim who died after being attacked in a previous year). It's down from 36 in 2023 and is the lowest number of homicides in the city since 1957.

Of course, that doesn't help the loved ones and friends of the people who died. And while the number of murders citywide went down, they went up - from 4 to 7 - in District C-11, which covers much of Dorchester.

In the listing below, click on a person's name for more details on how they died and any updates on their cases. 2024 murders mapped.

David Abrain

David Abrain

Man stabbed to death near Ashmont station.

Aug. 23, 9:59 pm
1879 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester

Braulio Castillo

Braulio Castillo

Man shot to death on South Huntington Avenue.

Oct. 17, 9:35 pm
S. Huntington Ave. and Craftson Way, Jamaica Plain

Quami Clarke

Quami Clarke

Man shot dead at Mildred Hailey Apartments.

Sep. 23, 9:22 pm
277 Centre St., Jamaica Plain

Elijah Clunie

Elijah Clunie

Double shooting at Dorchester barber shop kills one; across street from where another man was murdered last week.

Sep. 2, 12:55 pm
184 Washington St., Dorchester

Daniel Coke

Daniel Coke

Man stabbed to death on Amory Terrace in Roxbury.

Aug. 4, 4:42 am
10 Amory Terr., Roxbury

JaShun Cooley

JaShun Cooley

Man shot to death on Washington Street in Dorchester.

Aug. 24, 9:58 pm
159 Washington St., Dorchester

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Keith Cousin

New Jersey man shot to death on Devon Street in Dorchester; two arrested.

Dec. 9, 10:25 pm
114 Devon St., Dorchester

Christian Cousins

Christian Cousins

Two shot in Mattapan, one dies.

Jul. 5, 12:25 pm
Gladeside Ave. and Donwood Terr, Mattapan

George Deeble

George Deeble

Man shot to death on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan; first Boston murder in two months.

Apr. 27, 4:44 am
Blue Hill Ave. and Fremont St., Mattapan

Edwin Diaz Geraldo

Edwin Diaz Geraldo

Driver dead, passenger injured after car crashes into Dorchester house, but driver might have been shot first.

Jun. 28, 8:34 pm
24 Fifield St., Dorchester

Duru

Mitchell Felix Duru

Man shot dead on Cummins Highway in Mattapan.

Sep. 29, 1:05 am
849 Cummins Highway, Mattapan

No photo

Jose Alberto Feliz

Man shot to death in Fairmount development in Hyde Park.

Nov. 8, 1:15 pm
205 Garfield Ave., Hyde Park

Nilton Fernandes

Fernandes, Nilton

Man shot to death in Dorchester early on New Year's Day.

Jan. 1, 5:28 am
34 High St., Dorchester

Shantel Gillespie

Shantel Gillespie

Woman found murdered in South End apartment.

Dec. 12, 7:00 pm
390 Harrison Ave., South End

Warren Julien

Warren Julien

Man shot to death in Ramsay Park.

Jul. 5, 1:33 am
618 Shawmut Ave., Roxbury

Andy Baez Manan

Andy Baez Manan

Man shot to death on Arborway near Forest Hills station.

Jul. 14, 10:20 pm
Arborway and Washington St., Jamaica Plain

Maceo Martin

Maceo Martin

Man shot to death on Hammond Street in Roxbury; suspect arrested.

Oct. 8, 1:36 am
17 Hammond St., Roxbury

No photo

Leudis Mejia Sanchez

Two shot, one dead in apartment on Trent Street in Dorchester.

Aug. 12, 6:40 pm
5 Trent St., Dorchester

Shear-Yashub

Pereshah Shear-Yashub

Woman shot to death on Edson Street in Dorchester.

May. 31, 11:17 pm
36 Edson St., Dorchester

Celia Simmons

Celia Simmons

Woman fatally stabbed in Ramsay Park.

Nov. 16, 12:48 pm
1917 Washington St., Roxbury

Ja'Shaun Smith

Ja'Shaun Smith

Man shot to death on Michigan Avenue in Dorchester.

Nov. 5, 8:03 pm
15 Michigan Ave., Dorchester

Vinay

Aanya Vinay

Two bodies found in Theater District hotel.

Feb. 26, 12:21 pm
240 Tremont St., Chinatown

No photo

Name not released

Person in car was shot at Erie and Merrill streets in Dorchester.

May. 2, 3:12 pm
Erie St. and Merrill St., Dorchester


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Common fireworks

Our own Ron Newman took in the early First Night fireworks, over the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Boston Common, this evening.


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One last sunrise

Handmaid captured the last sunrise of 2024, over Mission Hill this morning.


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Guy with Louis Vuitton handbag harasses woman on Red Line train, then punches her in the nose, police say

Phone images via Transit PD.

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say not only harassed a woman on an inbound Red Line train between Quincy Center and JFK/UMass, he punched her in the nose hard enough to start it bleeding, around 8:40 p.m. on Sunday.

If the guy and his Louis Vuitton "Kimono" handbag - "inspired by a Japanese robe style" and suitable for pairing with either a work blazer or a little black dress - look familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050. You can remain anonymous.


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Two charged with gunpoint robbery of Charlestown convenience store

Boston Police report arresting a local and a guy from Wakefield on charges they held up the Star convenience store at 134 Bunker Hill St. in Charlestown shortly before 6:15 p.m. on Monday. Read more.

Mon, 12/30/2024 - 18:17
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Reflecting on the Charles River

Roving UHub photographer stopped to snap a tree reflection on the Charles in Allston near the Harvard athletic buildings, back when there was still ice on the river along with calm water, like, this morning.


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Owner of Jamaica Plain hotel makes conversion to homeless shelter official: Sells building to the non-profit now running it

SDS Hospitality, which owned the enVision Hotel at 81 South Huntington Ave., last week sold the building to Victory Programs, which has been housing homeless people there since 2022, for $15.8 million, according to Suffolk County Registry of Deeds records.

The former Pond View nursing home, which closed in 2008, re-opened as the boutique enVision Hotel in 2012. It closed during the pandemic in 2020. In 2022, under a city contract, Victory Programs began operating it as a temporary shelter for people forced to move from the homeless encampment that had grown up at Mass and Cass.

The non-profit says the four-story building is:

Transitional housing for individuals coming directly from the streets at Mass. and Cass, struggling with substance use and/or risk for overdose, and who are at high risk for HIV acquisition or are living with HIV/AIDS.

Victory Programs says the building is staffed 24/7 with workers who help residents get treatment and training, with the goal of finding them permanent housing within three to nine months.


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Uniwheeling down the East Boston Greenway

Earlier this year, Shaun Utter took his onewheel out for a spin along the East Boston Greenway.


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Still no answer on where the oil in the Muddy River came from

Brookline.news reports that while the oil that coated birds in the Muddy River came from a pipe near the Brook House, and while that condo complex had been responsible for past oil spills, officials are not sure it was the source, in part because it had earlier removed heating-oil tanks.


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Turkey made a break for it near Cleveland Circle, but then it froze

Sarah Iwany came across this moment frozen in time: A turkey by the side of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Brighton.


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President Jimmy Carter dies, 100

In 1978, Carter visited Massachusetts to campaign for Democratic candidates - including Michael Dukakis, who lost his re-election bid to Ed King.

The 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient died today at 100. Here are accounts and transcripts from some of his visits to the Boston area:


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School bus no match for Jersey barriers on Guest Street in Brighton

The driver of this bus atop Jersey barriers at Guest and Arthur streets in Brighton will no doubt have an interesting story to tell his dispatcher how he wound up like that, around 2:10 p.m. No reported injuries.


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Foggy day at the beach

Johnmcboston took a walk along East Boston's Constitution Beach, where two straight days of temperatures in the 40s is making all that snow turn into fog.


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Louisiana should leave New England out of its Christian-supremacist laws

J.L. Bell, who studies and writes about pre-Revolutionary New England, discusses a Louisiana law (currently stayed during a lawsuit) that requires public schools to display a copy of the Ten Commandments - and a "context statement" that refers to the 17th-century New England Primer, a reader for young students, as proof Christianity has always been a part of American public education.

Except, as Bell writes, the primer was meant for homes and private schools, not the New England colonies' public schools.

That book contained the Ten Commandments not because they were universal but because it served the particular religious faiths that had adopted the Westminster Catechism. Those Commandments weren’t displayed on their own because the authors of that catechism thought children wouldn’t understand them correctly that way. And that textbook wasn’t created for American public schools but for home and private education.


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Changes at South Station: Some are grand, some make you go: Huh?

Our own Cybah recently snapped some shots underneath the 51-story office/condo building nearing completion above the tracks of South Station.

The new archways are dramatic and the bus depot is enlarged, including a revamped McDonald's with lots of self-service ordering kiosks.

And then the developers seemed to run out of ideas on what to do with a bank of former pay phones and so just covered them with metal sheets, put in a couple of ports and rebranded them as "mobile devices" areas:

Pay phones redone as mobile-device stations


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The sweet smell of the T, at least at Union Square

Neal Gaffey asks:

Does anyone know why the Union Square T station smells like chocolate? It is delightful.

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Man with fluffy mustache tries to hold up a West Roxbury bank, but fails

A man walked into the Rockland Trust branch at 1920 Centre St. in West Roxbury, yelled "give me all your money!" but then fled without any money, around 1:35 p.m.

He was described as a white guy with a "large, fluffy gray mustache," about 5'3" and maybe in his 60s. He wore a thick black jacket and sunglasses.

Fri, 12/27/2024 - 13:35
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