One dead at Brighton fire; second victim attacks firefighters with knife

By adamg on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 9:43am

Brian D'Amico reports firefighters responding to a fire on the fourth floor of 2 Fidelis Way around 9 a.m. had to deal with not only a dead person in the kitchen, but a second victim who began swinging a knife at them.

The Boston Fire Department reports one resident and two maintenance workers were taken to St. Elizabeth's for smoke inhalation and that police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office are now investigating the fire and death.

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Won't see this one in the NRA's talking points

By Kaz on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 10:09am.

Gee, if only the person had been armed with a gun instead of a knife, right?

Because criminals and crazy

By anon on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 11:49am.

Because criminals and crazy people always obey the law.

Of course not...

By Kaz on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 1:52pm.

But, we both think it would have been absurd for me to have suggested they use a rocket launcher instead of a knife when the fireman showed up, right? And since rocket launchers are illegal to sell in the US, that tells us that the legal status of the weapon does have an effect on its accessibility to the common criminal and crazy person (crazy isn't usually planned by any means and will use whatever's at hand most times...knife, gun in bedroom drawer, gun in desk drawer, gun in closet...but not illegally smuggled gun from Mexico).

Citizen journalism at its finest?

By eeka on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 4:46pm.

I like the perspective of someone who's a regular person listening to a scanner or something, but I could really do without this young man's disparaging comments about "the projects" and what he perceives takes place there.

The Fidelis Way projects

By Kaz on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 6:02pm.

No need to put them in quotes. They are the projects around here. And while crime doesn't stray outside of them too much, there's quite a bit that goes on inside of them. The ones that do stray usually do a number on the neighborhood. The cabbie that got killed on Monastery Road a few years back...his murderers ran to the projects. I've seen guys with bike parts riding down Washington St taking them back into the projects. I've heard about assaults and muggings from people who then had their attacker head back into those projects.

No, it's not Harlem or Brooklyn or anything, but it's definitely the roughest part of Brighton.