A Riverside Line trolley had some pantograph performance issues in the tunnel between Haymarket and Government Center shortly before midnight. Not long after, Transit Police reported numerous drunk young men running on the tracks from Government Center to Park after one train was evacuated to Government Center. Before the dead train was emptied, Charles reported:
A bunch of fellas are yelling at each other and I think they’re about to do the Good Will Hunting bar scene.
Firefighters and EMS responded to Park Street station around 10:15 p.m. due to a person on the southbound tracks. He was quickly determined to be dead, and firefighters removed his body. Read more.
In 1843, William Sharp created this lithograph of a Boston street scene, specifically, Tremont Street, looking past the Park Street Church and Boston Common on the right.
From the BPL arts department. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
Whatever happened happened around 10 p.m. The T initially said a trolley derailed at Park Street, but then said, nope the trolley "split a switch" but didn't actually go off the rails. Photo of non-derailment switch splitting.
In either case, no injuries, but also no service between Arlington Street and North Station. Riders can use the Orange Line instead, the T says.
Oh, look: The T has cameras everywhere.
Transit Police report they are looking for a guy who went up to an 83-year-old man and "forcefully grabbed the victim's wallet and cell phone out of his hand" on the eastbound Green Line platform at Park Street around 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 24. He then ran out of the station, police say.
If Orange Vest Guy looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-222-1050 or send an anonymous text to 87383.
Joe Ruscio was in line at Park Street around 5:20 p.m. for one of the alleged Red Line shuttle buses to JFK/UMass supposedly running due to this morning's Broadway derailment. No buses in sight, he reported.
Boston Police report arresting Nickoyan Wallace, on charges he gunned down Ivanildo Barros, 37, of Dorchester, at 590 Park St. in Dorchester shortly before noon on Friday. Read more.
Victim identified as Ivanildo Barros, 37, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report a man was murdered at 590 Park St., near Millet Street, around 11:50 a.m. He was declared dead at the scene.
This is the third murder in Dorchester this week. Boston murders in 2021.
Robert Grover posted this photo of a mortally wounded trolley at Park Street at 4:26 p.m., adds: Read more.
That's a lot of evidence markers. Photo by Live Boston.
Nobody injured during the gunfire around 11:15 p.m. in the area of Park and Claybourne streets. Live Boston reports at least 29 shell casings were found; evidence of an extensive shootout.
Detective photographs evidence. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports that shortly before 10:30 a.m., somebody in one car started shooting at somebody in another car on Park Street, near Claybourne Street, behind the Roxbury Prep middle school on Regina Road. No injuries, but plenty of spent shells at the scene, from which two cars fled at a high rate of speed.
A smoke-belching cable halted Green Line service between Government Center and Park Street around 11:15. One trolley got stuck in the tunnel; T workers escorted passengers from there to Park Street.
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