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Shaun Harrison

By adamg - 5/4/23 - 11:53 pm

A federal judge today sentenced Shaun "Rev" Harrison to ten years in federal prison for helping to run a local chapter of the Latin Kings and for shooting an English High School student point blank in the back of the head in 2015. Read more.

By adamg - 2/25/22 - 2:04 pm
Harrison about to shoot Rodriguez

BPS not to blame for what Harrison, at the back of this line of people, would do moments later.

A federal judge today dismissed a former English High School student's suit against BPS for the injuries he suffered when a counselor at the school shot him in the back of the head and left him for dead on Magazine Street in Newmarket Square in 2015, saying that BPS did nothing that would have led to the attempted murder. Read more.

By adamg - 8/20/20 - 12:02 pm
Alexis Peguero

The US Attorney's office reports that Alexis "King Looney" Peguero, 29, pleaded guilty to a RICO charge for his role as second in command of the Devon Street Kings, a Latin Kings chapter whose alleged members included Shaun Harrison, the English High School dean convicted in 2018 of shooting one of his students in the back of the head. Read more.

By adamg - 12/5/19 - 6:56 pm
Shaun Harrison's Latin Kings tattoos

Harrison's tattoos - 100 is a gang symbol, feds say.

Shaun Harrison

The US Attorney's office in Boston today announced the indictments of 62 alleged members of Massachusetts chapters of the national Latin Kings gang on racketeering charges. Among them: Shaun "Rev" Harrison, sentenced to 23 to 26 years in prison last year for shooting an English High School student in the head because the kid owed him money for the marijuana Harrison was having him sell. Read more.

By adamg - 5/13/19 - 2:26 pm

Luis Rodriguez, who now lives in Framingham, is suing Boston Public Schools and current Cedar Junction inmate Shaun Harrison over the way Harrison shot Rodriguez and left him to die out of fear the then English High School student would reveal Harrison's pot-dealing operation at the school. Read more.

By adamg - 6/1/18 - 11:36 am

A Suffolk Superior Court judge today sentenced Shaun Harrison to 23 to 26 years in state prison after his conviction yesterday for trying to murder a teen who no longer wanted to sell marijuana for him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 5/31/18 - 11:49 am

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Shaun Harrison of assault with the intent to murder and nine other charges for shooting a 17-year-old in the head after the teen stopped selling marijuana for him in 2015, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 9/2/16 - 7:20 pm

Shaun Harrison, a former counselor at English High School had been scheduled to go on trial Oct. 17 on charges he shot a student in the head for not selling enough of Harrison's marijuana.

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By adamg - 5/6/15 - 4:43 pm

Shaun Harrison, 55, a minister and counselor in Boston schools, was ordered held in lieu of $400,000 bail today at his arraignment on charges of armed assault with intent to murder, aggravated assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, two counts of unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony ... Read more.

By adamg - 3/24/15 - 11:23 pm

WBUR reports on a BPS report that found school officials followed their own protocols for disciplining Shaun Harrison before he allegedly shot a student selling pot for him, but that that may not have been enough.

By adamg - 3/17/15 - 2:41 pm

A Roxbury Municipal Court judge set additional bail of $150,000 for Shaun Harrison at his arraignment today on two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and single counts of trafficking in cocaine, unlawful possession of ammunition and possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

By adamg - 3/9/15 - 6:07 pm

The day he allegedly shot a male student, Shaun Harrison was fired from his job at English High School for pushing a female student involved in an altercation at the school two days earlier, Mayor Walsh's office says.

Walsh this afternoon released a snapshot of the city's initial investigation into Rev. Shaun Harrison's work record in the Boston Public Schools from the time he was first hired as a youth mentor at the South Boston Education Complex under an external grant in 2005 to his firing last week.

By adamg - 3/9/15 - 10:46 am

Mayor Walsh this morning announced "a comprehensive internal inquiry of the employment history of Shaun Harrison" by the BPS department of labor relations.

By adamg - 3/7/15 - 3:48 pm
Shaun Harrison at a gun buyback program in Roxbury

Although until this week, most people thought it was an interest in getting guns away from teenagers.

In 2006, Harrison was an active participant in a high-profile city gun buyback program, in which people could turn in guns, no questions asked, and get a Target gift card.

By adamg - 3/7/15 - 10:19 am

Shaun Harrison, already in trouble for allegedly shooting a high-school student he felt done him wrong could face new gun and drug charges based on what detectives found inside his apartment.

By adamg - 3/5/15 - 8:33 am

Shaun Harrison, 55, is scheduled for arraignment this morning on charges he shot a 17-year-old at 100 Magazine St. around 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. Read more.

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