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Shootings raise concerns in Hyde Park
By adamg on Sun, 06/16/2013 - 10:44pm
Around 6 p.m. on June 7, a 23-year-old Hyde Park man was sitting in Los Magicos Barber Shop, 79 Fairmount Ave., when he was shot. According to a police report:
A black male, approximately [in his] 20s reached his arm inside the barber-shop door and fired a shot.
The victim was shot in the leg. Three days later, a detective recovered a spent .22-caliber copper-coated hollow-point bullet from inside the seating area of a chair.
The barbershop is in a stretch of Fairmount Avenue that local officials have been trying for years to upgrade - the shop is next door to the Fairmount Grill, which recently opened where Townsends used to be.
On the other side of the neighborhood, on Wood Avenue, a shooting late Saturday has raised fears that the area is seeing the end of relative calm now that several members of the Wood Avenue Eagles gang are getting released from prison.
Police have not announced arrests in either case.
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it takes BPD three days to get around to collecting evidence?
It really takes 3 days for BPD to get around to sending homicide detectives around to collect forensic evidence?
Sounds like more reason why Boston has one of the lowest homicide clearance rates in the country. What is it, 30%?
snitches
I was told by a BPD officer they know who fired the shot but need a witness to come forward before they can arrest them.....sad that the black community protects the criminals :(
Black community?
Please. It's not a monolith. Maybe some people are protecting the shooter, but that's not everybody.
please, yes it is
Refusing to testify in violent crimes and "no snitches" crap is, in fact, an almost exclusively black-community problem.
Please, so?
That some members of a group protect criminals doesn't mean they all do.
But
those members that do are all ______!
Really?
> Refusing to testify in violent crimes and "no snitches" crap is,
> in fact, an almost exclusively black-community problem.
Funny. I believe this was a standard practice in some of Boston's white ethnic communites. for example:
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/artic...
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=199...
This comment has to be
This comment has to be dripping with sarcasm. Charlestown Code of Silence ring a bell? http://www.justice.gov/dea_old/major/charlestown.htm
I doubt there is even a trace of sarcasm....
Alas.
It's a dilemma
Many people in the 'community' indeed won't testify in court [unless of course they have some legal issues themselves and they cut a deal with the DA], because police can't protect 'snitches'.
I lived very close to this spot, and never had any problems with any kind of crime whatsoever. There must be guys getting out of prison, and going back to their old ways, settling turf and other issues.