Boston Police report officers responding to a ShotSpotter activation for gunfire at Westville and Ditson streets in Dorchester's Fields Corner around 1:30 a.m. on Saturday found a man with a gun in his left pocket. Read more.
Rendering by Utile, showing institute buildings in rear, behind garden entranceway.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city-owned vacant lots at 30 Westville St. in Dorchester. Read more.
Victim identified as Christian Berryman, 19, a 2022 graduate of Fenway High School.
Boston Police report a man was shot outside 38 Westville St. in Dorchester around 12:40 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports 12 residents made it out of 87 Westville St. in Dorchester when flames began going up one side of the building, but that one firefighter required transportation to a local fire.
Firefighters responded around 5:35 a.m., the department reports, adding the cause remains under investigation.
Boston Police report arresting two teens on charges they shot a man on Westville Street in Dorchester around 2 p.m., after possibly first shooting at but failing to hit somebody else in the Franklin Hill development about eight minutes earlier. Read more.
Archictect's rendering.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the owners of a Fields Corner cafe for a four-story building with 14 studio apartments no bigger than 280 square feet on Westville Street. Read more.
Live Boston reports a man was stabbed around 11:35 p.m. on Thursday at 208 Westville St., about halfway between Geneva Avenue and Draper Street. Due to the severity of the person's injuries, the homicide unit was called in.
KMV reports gunfire on Westville Street near Geneva Avenue - possibly as many as 25 shots - overnight. Nobody hit, but officers and search dogs searched one particular house, although they did not find any suspects.
On Thursday, several shots were fired on Westville Street, closer to Bowdoin Street.
Three or four shots fired around 9:40 p.m. on Westville treet near Bowdoin Street. Shell casings recovered.
Architect's rendering.
The owners of a Fields Corner cafe have filed plans with the BPDA for a building with 14 studio apartments they say would rent for between $650 and $850 a month - heat and hot water included. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was shot to death around 1:40 a.m. at 58 Westville St.
Ed Baur and Kevin Wiles report two women and a man were shot outside 24 Westville St. around 5:30 a.m. by a guy who fired on them out of the sunroof of a black Nissan.
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