A federal judge this week sentenced Jarmori Brown, 21, to 18 months in federal prison for his role in a ring that purchased guns in Alabama, then rode with them on buses up to Boston, where they sold the weapons on the black market. Read more.

Victim identified as Tywon Meek, 19.

Boston Police report a man was shot to death on Leyland Street, just past East Cottage Street, in Dorchester, around 11:45 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting three people and seizing three guns after five people were shot at a large, impromptu fireworks display around 2 a.m. at Edgewater Drive and River Street in Mattapan. Read more.

Victim identified as Nelson Jose Curet, 30, of Roxbury.

Boston Police report two men were shot at 27 McGreevey Way, around 12:10 a.m. Read more.

Somebody was shot in the head and stomach shortly after 9 p.m. on Oakley Street near Geneva Avenue shortly after 9 p.m., Stanley Staco reports. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries. A house on Geneva Avenue was hit by at least one bullet.

Jack Jones, 25, was arraigned in East Boston court today on two counts of possession of a concealed weapon in a secure area of an airport, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, carrying a loaded firearm and possession of a large-capacity feeding device, the Suffolk Count District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

Boston Police report arresting a 39-year-old man they say had a fanny pack with a gun loaded with 14 bullets as he prepared to engage in a fistfight in the employee parking lot of the John D. O'Bryant School on Malcolm X Boulevard in Roxbury yesterday afternoon. Read more.

Stanley Staco and Live Boston report a BPD officer was shot in the back and the foot Cedric Street near Langdon Street around 9:15 p.m. One suspect was taken into custody on the roof of the three-story industrial building there. Read more.

Boston Police report officers arrested a Mattapan man on gun charges after initially pulling him over for running a red light at Cummins Highway and Harvard Street in Mattapan shortly before 5:30 p.m. today. Read more.