Update, Tuesday a.m.: The MBTA rolled out shuttle buses to replace Ashmont Red Line service after the water disrupted power to the trains.
A National Grid crew working in the street at Dorchester Avenue at Ashmont Street in Dorchester around 6 p.m., struck a Boston Water and Sewer Commission main, turning Peabody Square into an impassible lake and forcing firefighters to evacuate at least one building after they started smelling a strong odor of gas. Read more.
A federal judge this week sentenced a member of Dorchester's Ashmont Street gang to seven years in federal prison after he admitted that he was in possession of a gun and ammunition he shouldn't have been since he was on parole for an earlier gun-running sentence - as well as being in possession of saleable quantities of cocaine. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court today upheld Shaquille Brown's conviction for murdering Christopher Austin on Ashmont Street in Dorchester in 2017. Read more.
Boston Police have released video of two of the three men they say have beaten and robbed people near the intersection of Ashmont and Adams streets the past two Saturdays. Read more.
A man was shot in the leg on Ashmont Street at Montague Street around 8:45 p.m. Officers who arrived on scene found evidence of gunfire, but not victim. Around 9 p.m., however, the victim showed up at a local emergency room.
Boston Police have released a photo of the car with which somebody ran down Qualan Powell and then left him to die at the intersection of Dorchester Avenue and Ashmont Street Saturday night. Read more.
Boston Police report that officers responding to a call about a man walking down Burt Street towards Ashmont Street with a gun shortly before 2 p.m. yesterday found David Abrain, 47, of Dorchester, where Burt meets Ashmont and Ocean, with a loaded .40-caliber gun in the waistband of his jeans. Read more.
A fed-up citizen managed to get to a safe space to file a 311 complaint about a turkey that has mistaken Ashmont Street in Dorchester for Brookline: Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports firefighters responded at 2:18 a.m. to 550 Ashmont St., near Train Street, for a fire that started on the first floor and extended to the second. Read more.
Boston Police report charging Keith Cousins, 30, and Shaquille Brown, 22, with fatally shooting Christopher Austin, 20, in the face at 96 Ashmont St. around 10 a.m. on June 28. Read more.
UPDATE: The victim, Christopher Austin, 20, died.
Around 10 a.m. on Ashmont Street between Waldorf and Ocean streets. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
Scott Eisen reports a man was shot around 2:15 p.m. outside 94 Ocean St., although police found him several blocks away on Ashmont Street, near Washington. Stanley Stacos reports the victim was robbed of his phone, then shot.
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