Boston crime

Murders over the past 365 days

Murders in Boston as reported by Boston Police over the past year.
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Recent crimes

Stabbing
2/2/12 - 12:10 pm
884 Cummins Highway
Mattapan
Armed robbery
1/31/12 - 7:00 pm
Firth St. and Washington St.
Roslindale
Stabbing
1/29/12 - 12:45 am
2 Broad St.
Boston
Burglary
1/28/12 - 11:00 pm
1084 Boylston St.
Boston
Assault and battery
1/28/12 - 11:00 pm
Tremont St. and Park St.
Boston
Shooting
1/27/12 - 12:30 pm
242 Harold St.
Roxbury
Armed robbery
1/24/12 - 9:40 pm
80 Boylston St.
Jamaica Plain
Armed robbery
1/22/12 - 9:00 pm
1070 Hyde Park Ave.
Hyde Park
Illegal weapons possession
1/22/12 - 3:00 pm
30 King St.
Dorchester
Unarmed robbery
1/19/12 - 11:09 pm
Lamartine St. and Hoffman St.
Jamaica Plain
Assault and battery
1/16/12 - 5:00 am
Jamaica Pond
Jamaica Plain
Fire
1/15/12 - 10:00 pm
Summer St. and 1 St.
South Boston
Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon
1/15/12 - 8:03 pm
10 Hammond St.
Roxbury
Armed robbery
1/15/12 - 5:33 pm
Washington St. and Winter St.
Boston
Murder
1/14/12 - 1:50 pm
23 Trull St.
Dorchester
Stabbing
1/14/12 - 1:30 am
161 Brighton Ave.
Allston
Assault and battery on a police officer
1/12/12 - 2:45 am
778 Boylston St.
Boston
Armed robbery
1/11/12 - 10:00 pm
Ronan Park
Dorchester
Shooting
1/11/12 - 2:00 pm
397 Old Colony Ave.
South Boston
Illegal weapons possession
1/11/12 - 6:30 am
15 Brinsley St.
Dorchester
Arson
1/11/12 (All day)
78 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Roxbury
Armed robbery
1/10/12 - 9:28 pm
Ruggles St. and DeWitt St.
Roxbury
Armed robbery
1/10/12 - 8:10 pm
607 Tremont St.
Boston
Armed robbery
1/9/12 - 10:00 pm
260 Western Ave.
Allston
Bank robbery
1/9/12 - 1:30 pm
2029 Centre St.
West Roxbury
Assault with a dangerous weapon
1/7/12 - 3:27 pm
Seaver St. and Blue Hill Ave.
Roxbury
Unarmed robbery
1/6/12 - 6:09 pm
358 Centre St.
Jamaica Plain
Gunfire
1/6/12 - 3:30 pm
219 South St.
Jamaica Plain
Armed robbery
1/5/12 - 10:15 pm
155 Williams St.
Jamaica Plain
Shooting
1/5/12 - 12:10 am
2 Carney Ct.
Charlestown
Armed robbery
1/4/12 - 3:30 pm
19 Whitten St.
Dorchester
Armed robbery
1/3/12 - 1:12 pm
200 Centre St.
Jamaica Plain
Shooting
1/2/12 - 10:00 pm
185 Columbia Rd.
Dorchester
Carjacking
1/2/12 - 9:45 pm
1065 Blue Hill Ave.
Dorchester
Shooting
1/2/12 - 2:45 pm
Ridlon St., and Greenfield St.
Mattapan
Armed home invasion
1/2/12 - 2:30 pm
96 Wordsworth St.
East Boston
Shooting
12/30/11 - 10:15 pm
15 Chester St.
Allston
Armed robbery
12/29/11 - 4:40 pm
Merriam St.
Jamaica Plain
Armed robbery
12/28/11 - 11:41 pm
269 Hanover St.
Boston
Unarmed robbery
12/28/11 - 7:40 pm
W. Broadway and St. Casimir St.
South Boston
Bank robbery
12/28/11 - 3:02 pm
6 Ave. de Lafayette
Boston
Bank robbery
12/27/11 - 4:45 pm
176 Federal St.
Boston
Murder
12/24/11 - 5:39 pm
100 Meridian St.
East Boston
Armed robbery
12/23/11 - 9:40 pm
Dorchester Ave. and Faulkner St.
Dorchester
Illegal weapons possession
12/22/11 - 2:34 pm
209 Boylston St.
Jamaica Plain
Stabbing
12/20/11 - 2:45 pm
85 Lenox St.
Roxbury
Armed robbery
12/16/11 - 8:39 pm
Cummins Highway and Fairway St.
Mattapan
Bank robbery
12/16/11 - 4:45 pm
125 Summer St.
Boston
Shooting
12/16/11 - 12:00 pm
618 Shawmut Ave.
Roxbury
Shooting
12/15/11 - 1:00 am
Castlegate Rd.
Roxbury
Unarmed robbery
12/14/11 - 7:23 pm
Huntington Ave. and Parker St.
Boston
Assault and battery
12/14/11 - 6:00 pm
High St. and Green St.
Charlestown
Illegal weapons possession
12/13/11 - 11:30 am
431 River St.
Mattapan
Indecent assault and battery
12/11/11 - 11:00 pm
10 Buick St.
Allston
Armed robbery
12/10/11 - 9:57 pm
31 Capen St.
Dorchester
Armed robbery
12/10/11 - 9:30 pm
31 Bradeen St.
Roslindale
Illegal weapons possession
12/10/11 - 7:01 am
51 Wentworth St.
Dorchester
Murder
12/9/11 - 9:30 am
47 Winston Rd.
Dorchester
Murder
12/6/11 - 8:30 pm
60 Dearborn St.
Roxbury
Murder
12/6/11 - 8:00 pm
7 Samoset St.
Dorchester
Unarmed robbery
12/5/11 - 12:17 pm
1223 Commonwealth Ave.
Allston
Illegal weapons possession
12/4/11 - 1:29 am
Whitfield St. and Wheatland Ave.
Dorchester
Murder
12/3/11 - 10:08 am
8 Wardman Rd.
Roxbury
Armed robbery
12/2/11 - 7:30 pm
1660 Dorchester Ave.
Dorchester
Assault and battery on a police officer
12/1/11 - 9:00 pm
Atlantic Ave. and Summer St.
Boston
Armed robbery
11/30/11 - 9:14 pm
W. Springfield St. and Columbus Ave.
Boston
Assault and battery with a dangerous weapon
11/29/11 - 12:20 am
153 E. Cottage St.
Dorchester
Assault and battery
11/28/11 - 1:30 pm
Forest Hills Dr.
Jamaica Plain

Crime comments

2/3/12 - 2:07 pm
How did this guy get a job with the City of Boston .lengthy record dating back to 1989, crimes of...
2/1/12 - 11:51 am
yes innocent, because he clearly has a mental illness, which should be treated adequately. nobody...
1/31/12 - 3:21 pm
Saw the cruisers and the get away car in front of 7-11 last night. Was wondering what happened.
1/30/12 - 8:41 pm
$5000 bail for illegal firearm possession and attempted murder? Gotta love them liberals.
1/30/12 - 1:31 am
And be trained to kick a guy in the junk. As a man, I fully endorse the right of any woman to kick...
1/29/12 - 3:17 pm
What does "H/t eeka." mean?
1/28/12 - 1:08 pm
If three guns can be stolen from the courthouse evidence safe, and we don't know how, then what...
1/27/12 - 1:36 pm
What's the status of the victim? Hope he survives, and that they find the perp.
1/27/12 - 10:41 am
maybe he had a license for the rifle but the scope was illegal. Wait ... what??? Scopes aren't...
1/27/12 - 10:41 am
I'm amazed (and dismayed) that a major blue-chip company, General Electric, is perpetrating this...
1/26/12 - 3:45 pm
Are they just the only ones left with landlines these days?
1/25/12 - 12:20 pm
What kind of an idiot would go drag-racing on route 16, especially in that particular area?
1/25/12 - 11:50 am
Seeing as how the spark plug was part of South End history and all.
1/24/12 - 10:32 pm
Much like the beast in a Catalonian bullfight, the N.H. gun owner gets ornery and violent when he...
1/24/12 - 7:03 pm
haul off and punch someone as hard as you can. I would be seriously surprised to see the victim...
1/24/12 - 8:53 am
I wonder if her action was legal. A case could be made for self-defense, if the dude's words were...
1/23/12 - 10:11 am
Is there a big shortage of aftermarket converters? I'm curious why thieves are stealing this...
1/21/12 - 4:48 pm
It's clear that Whitey Bulger is not only a very nasty, dangerous piece of work, but is even sicker...
1/20/12 - 2:52 pm
I've heard of bike muggings along South West Corridor path for years. I've even had a basketball...
1/19/12 - 10:04 am
Channel 25, on last night's news, referred to the stop as being on the Orange Line.
1/19/12 - 8:40 am
when i drank there the worse thing that ever happened was someone getting cracked over the head...
1/18/12 - 8:53 pm
Who says that locals don't go to Quincy Market?
1/17/12 - 2:52 pm
Why would they cite them for drug dealing...just to be a-holes?
1/16/12 - 6:01 pm
Why "homeless man" as if to highlight this attribute of the guy, thereby suggesting that anyone who...
1/16/12 - 2:55 pm
I was driving down the highway and saw the car coming straight for ne and I swearved out of the way...
1/16/12 - 2:31 pm
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/downtown/2012/01/bronze_footprints_of_former_ma.html
1/16/12 - 10:39 am
Wahlberg Plans to Meet 'Whitey' Bulger in Prison
1/16/12 - 8:48 am
Copper, asbestos and PCB's not to mention all the security cameras around this dump. Sounds like an...
1/15/12 - 10:41 am
Wasn't last year's first murder much earlier, and also in Dorchester?
1/14/12 - 1:24 pm
News reports that are now saying that in addition to be drunk (allegedly) that the father is an...
1/13/12 - 11:13 pm
at least for the moment. "Bored to death"- what a maroon.
1/13/12 - 10:00 pm
In Boston Municipal Court, per the DA's office. He's charged with one count of unarmed robbery.
1/13/12 - 2:40 pm
Wasn't there a Supreme Court case a year or so ago (possibly the 2010 one mentioned in the article...
1/12/12 - 5:09 pm
Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley says: Justice Spina is absolutely correct in his...
1/11/12 - 8:34 pm
From the headmaster. I would also like my kid to have an uninterrupted day of learning with no...
1/11/12 - 3:52 pm
This happened my jr/sr year when I was there, got out 5 years ago. Fires were started in bathrooms...
1/10/12 - 4:43 pm
called me when he got home from school to tell me about this. There's a lot of kids in that...
1/10/12 - 3:53 pm
A Boston Municipal Court judge set bail at $10,000 for each of them, the Suffolk County District...
1/9/12 - 2:30 pm
I once flipped off a guy for needlessly beeping at me. He wound up punching me in the face. These...
1/8/12 - 11:15 pm
Yes, locking a wheel to the frame would have prevented this ride-away theft. Locking the perp in a...
1/7/12 - 11:45 pm
Both of those incidents involved people from the same address. Unless "turf" suddenly went as...
1/6/12 - 6:15 pm
What is it with dentists? My childhood oral surgeon went to prison for not paying the IRS for...
1/6/12 - 6:04 pm
What is it with these idiots? Seems like it's an almost constant problem. Do they not hear about...
1/6/12 - 10:45 am
If you're going to steal something, at least steal something that doesn't scream "I've given up on...