Someone decided 3:30 a.m. was a good time to repeatedly fire a gun at the intersection of Charlame Street and South Charlame Terrace in Roxbury. Nobody was hit, but at least five cars got fresh bullet holes. Police found eight shell casings at the intersection.
Victim identified as Warren Julien, 40, of Jamaica Plain.
Boston Police report a man was shot on the Lenox Street side of Ramsay Park around 1:30 this morning. Read more.
A person was shot in front of Fernandez Liquors at Washington and Cedar streets in Roxbury around 10:05 p.m.
Police found shell casings a block away at Cedar and Juniper streets.
Photos via BPD.
A possible dispute over a parking spot on Hutchings Street in Roxbury Saturday afternoon ended when one of the combatants came after the other with a baseball bat, Boston Police say. Read more.
Where the porch used to be. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports seven people were injured - three seriously enough to require hospitalization - when a porch collapsed at 527 Dudley St. in Roxbury Saturday night.
The department reports a 4x10 section of the third-floor porch gave way around 10:30 p.m., sending people on the porch 12 feet down to the second floor, part of the Fernandez Brothers liquor store.
Boston Police report officers responding to a 911 call about gunfire behind 58 Circuit St. in Roxbury early this morning found a large party going on - and one guy who started walking away from the celebrations while clutching his hoodie pocket when they arrived. Read more.
Handmaid hoped to see some brilliantly colored clouds at daybreak in Franklin Park, but instead got a sign it's time to try to stay cool for the next few days. She quotes Laurie Anderson: Read more.
Update: Sentencing rescheduled for July 18.
Children's Hospital has joined Catherine Leavy's attorney in asking leniency for the Westfield woman when she is sentenced Friday for calling in a hoax bomb threat that forced the lockdown of the hospital and part of the Longwood Medical Area in 2022 - specifically, that she not be ordered to serve any prison time. Read more.
New Northeastern arena, rendered by Perkins & Will.
Northeastern University yesterday filed detailed plans with the BPDA for its proposed replacement for Matthews Arena on St. Botolph Street and laid out longer-term plans for several new buildings across its campus, including dorms and lab buildings, some 20 stories tall, that could dramatically change the look of one stretch of Huntington Avenue if built. Read more.
Paul Friedmann got a good view of the sunrise over Boston this morning.
Handmaid watched the sun go up over Franklin Park: Read more.
Bonnie Rovics was at the Franklin Park Zoo the other day when she noticed one of our local turkeys had gotten into the pen where the ostriches live - and that when an ostrich came after it, it mounted a counter-attack.
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a person they say robbed somebody at 22 Slayton Way between 8 p.m. and 8:20 p.m. on May 27. Read more.
A Roxbury man was arrested today on federal charges that he used a Bluetooth-enabled system to help people pass their Commercial Driver's License learner's permit exams - for $3,000. Read more.
Northeastern University today filed a "letter of intent" with the BPDA that it plans to replace Matthews Arena - built as Boston Arena in the early 1900s and once home to the Bruins and Celtics - with a new 290,000-square-foot facility that will include both an arena for university teams and a fieldhouse for recreational student use. Read more.
Surveillance photo via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy in a plaid long-sleeve shirt with one of the fancier Stop & Shop reusable bags who they say held up the Black Sheep Multiservice store at 537 Dudley St. in Roxbury around 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 13-year-old after he returned to the Mr. Pleasant Play Area to retrieve the handgun with 10 loaded rounds somebody had left there Monday morning - along with another young teen and a Charlestown man. Read more.
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