Boston Police responded to Academy Road and Academy Court in Roxbury shortly before 10 p.m. on reports of gunfire.
By adamg - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 4:04pm
A Dorchester man with a record of gun arrests was charged yesterday on charges he shot Jose Despeignes, 56, to death in an apartment on Weaver Way in Roxbury's Academy Homes development Saturday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 03/04/2023 - 9:10pm
Victim identified as Jose Despeignes, 56, of Hyde Park.
Boston Police report a man was shot at 109 Weaver Way in Roxbury around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 11/06/2020 - 10:52pm
At Weaver Way and Academy Road, about 10:30. Like with the gunfire about 30 minutes earlier a half mile away on Harrishof Street, there were no reports of injuries.
By adamg - Wed, 06/19/2019 - 12:34pm
The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for Demetrius Wardsworth, convicted of first-degree murder, because of errors at his trial by both Suffolk County prosecutors and the judge. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 12/24/2018 - 11:19am
City Councilor Kim Janey reports on efforts to provide holiday meals to residents at Academy Homes, now on their second day without heat or gas: Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 12/23/2018 - 10:05pm
By adamg - Mon, 09/14/2015 - 7:05pm
A second member of the BPD gang unit faces a charge of trying to disrupt a two-year investigation of the Academy Homes gang in Roxbury.
But unlike Det. Mel Steele, who acted out of a longstanding friendship with a member of the gang in feeding information to its members, Det. Brian Smigielski is charged with acting in a fit of pique. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 08/03/2015 - 12:51pm
Around 12:45 p.m. at 92 Academy Terrace in the Academy Homes project near Jackson Square. The homicide unit is on the way, due to the severity of at least one victim's injuries. At least five shots fired, by somebody who got out of a pickup, fired, then got back in the pickup, which sped away.
WBUR reports the victims were sitting in a car; a brother and a sister were the most critically injured.
By adamg - Thu, 02/06/2014 - 6:21am
Jed Hresko spotted this stroller saver at Academy Homes in Roxbury.
By adamg - Thu, 12/27/2012 - 2:49pm
Owens Brown, 34, former leader of the Academy Homes gang, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison last week after plead
By adamg - Wed, 10/22/2008 - 9:02am
Boston Police last night arrested Jermeil Robinson, 17, of Jamaica Plain, for the Saturday shooting at the Academy Homes project that sent three boys to the hospital with gunshot wounds.
He's to be arraigned this morning in Roxbury District Court on charges of assault by means of a firearm, assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to murder, unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition, discharge of a firearm within 500 ft. of a dwelling and carrying a loaded firearm on a public way.
Witnesses and relatives told the Globe the attacker just walked up to the boys, 11, 11 and 12, and started shooting.
According to the Jamaica Plain Gazette, thugs at the Bromley-Heath project in Jamaica Plain have a long-standing beef with thugs at Academy Homes.
