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By adamg - 11/15/15 - 6:43 pm
Boston Police report gang-unit officers patrolling Centre Street in Jackson Square due to recent gang-related gun violence spotted a bunch of guys hanging out in a no-trespassing area in a Bromley-Heath building Saturday night and went to have a little chat: Read more.
By adamg - 11/11/15 - 12:54 pm
Boston Police report detectives with a warrant and a SWAT team arrested Malachi Scott, 19, at 58 Gordon Ave. around 4:45 a.m. on charges he opened fire on a crowd outside the Whittier Street project on Oct. 28, hitting one man. Read more.
By adamg - 11/11/15 - 9:26 am
State Police report arresting Gary Pimentel, 20, of Charlestown, on charges he reacted to some sort of traffic conflict on an I-93 ramp by pointing a realistic-looking toy gun at another driver around 4:30 p.m. yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 11/10/15 - 10:16 pm
Around 9:30 p.m. on W. Rutland Park by four teens with guns. At least two suspects are in custody. The victim declined medical attention.
By adamg - 11/10/15 - 7:32 am
State Police say a suspect in a New Hampshire stolen-gun ring was arrested after he left his Boston hotel to run an errand last night.
State Police did not specify the hotel, but said they arrested Kevin Paul, 36, at Albany Street and Melnea Cass Boulevard, which is a couple blocks from the Crosstown Hampton Inn. Read More.
By adamg - 11/6/15 - 10:54 pm
Fired at least six times at Westminster Avenue and Wardman Road around 10:35 p.m.
By adamg - 11/1/15 - 6:08 pm
Around 5:40 p.m. on Elder Street, Crime Hub reports. Shell casings found outside 14 Elder.
By adamg - 11/1/15 - 5:05 pm
Crime Hub reports the shooting happened around 4:30 p.m.; police are still looking for the exact location. Injuries not considered life threatening.
By adamg - 10/29/15 - 4:22 pm
Hours after the City Council approved a measure letting police seize replica guns, officers detained a kid who'd just used a can of spray paint to give himself a realistic looking weapon with which to be tough, Boston Police report.
By adamg - 10/27/15 - 10:38 am
UPDATE, Wednesday: City Council unanimously approved the ordinance.
Police Commissioner William Evans strongly backs a proposed ordinance that would let police seize toy and replica guns that look too much like the real thing.
Evans said the guns increasingly being used in crimes. At a City Council committee hearing this morning, he pointed to last night's robbery outside the Savin Hill T stop, allegedly by two teens with a realistic-looking BB gun as just the latest example of people using replica guns in crimes. Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/15 - 2:21 pm
Clive Francis went up to his troubled niece's room with a vacuum cleaner Saturday afternoon to help clean up some of the glass from the mirror she'd shattered. He didn't come down again because she shot him in the head, a Suffolk County prosecutor said today. Read more.
By adamg - 10/23/15 - 12:07 am
Update: Victim identified as Desmond Joseph, 34.
Shortly before midnight on Telford Street, Kevin Wiles reports. The homicide unit was called in; BEMS Incidents reports the victim died.
A nearby resident reported hearing four shots.
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