A man ran into Boston Police headquarters on Tremont Street in Roxbury around 11:30 p.m. with gunshot wounds to the groin and arm. Officers on duty at the station heard the gunfire and then discovered the headquarters building itself had also been hit - both in the front and on the Ruggles Street side. Read more.
DA: Records from their getaway Uber ride helped lead police to pair charged with a murder in Roxbury
By adamg - 4/30/18 - 5:58 pm
Two men were ordered held without bail today at their arraignment on charges they murdered Alexander Mervin on Whittier Street on Jan. 11. Read more.
By adamg - 1/11/18 - 4:08 pm
UPDATE: Boston Police identify the victim as Alexander Mervin, 22, of Revere.
Boston Police report a man in his early 20s was fatally shot at 31 Whittier St. around 1:45 p.m.
He is Boston's first murder victim this year.
By adamg - 12/12/16 - 12:20 pm
City and federal housing officials gathered at the Whittier Street development today to announce a $30-million grant to help replace the aging buildings - and spur development of the surrounding neighborhood while keeping it from becoming another yuppie enclave. Read more.
By adamg - 7/10/16 - 9:21 am
The Bay State Banner reports on the proposal, by the BHA, Preservation of Affordable Housing and Madison Park Development Corp. to raze the current 200-unit project off Tremont Street in Roxbury and replace it with 210 low-income apartments, 136 affordable units and 81 to be rented at market rates.
By adamg - 2/16/16 - 2:53 pm
The development team that has long had the rights to an empty parcel across from Boston police headquarters on Tremont Street have filed new plans that include 700 residential units, a 200-room hotel, a big-box store, smaller shops and a museum and performing-arts space. Read more.
