Man murdered near Faneuil Hall in broad daylight on July Fourth
By adamg - Sat, 07/05/2008 - 12:01am.
Boston Police report a man was murdered at the intersection of North and Union streets around 11:51 a.m., Friday.
On arrival, officers located the victim, a 40 year-old black male, who they learned had been assaulted by a suspect who fled the scene. The victim was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital with life threatening injuries where he was later pronounced.
Police say they are looking for anybody who might have seen the incident. Contact the homicide unit at (617) 343-4470 or use the anonymous CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS (or text 'TIP' to CRIME).
murder in broad daylight, but hey- we thwarted the ter'rists!
Well, now we know the side effect of diverting state and city police resources to absurd levels...
Wake up from your ignorant terrorism-NIMBY mentality.
Very unfortunate. Don't blame the police for doing their job.
what terrorism in my backyard?
You mean the ones constantly telling us to "report suspicious packages or behavior"? The ones swarming our public celebrations of freedom- searching our belongings? Or the ones listening on our phones, reading our email, checking lists of sites we surf?
Those terrorists, who convince us to engage in xenophobic fear of the foreign bogeyman, whiles ignoring the fact that our deaths are overwhelmingly either personally self-inflicted or inflicted by our fellow countryman?
Sounds more like
Sounds more like manslaughter. Assault that lead to cardiac arrest.
No weapons used right?
Globe makes it sound a bit more serious than that
Man dies in beating in downtown park:
Eggshell skull
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
Plainclothes cops?
I'm sure he must have said something smartass to them and they couldn't control themselves.
They are heroes who were sacrificing themselves to control the rest of the crowd, no doubt.
Holy Crap!
I was across the street in Dock Square at that time with no idea that a murder was happening. There were so many people about too, although many distractions as well (buskers, et al).