A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Emmanuel Pina and Sandro Tavares guilty of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of a man with whom they'd had a beef and an innocent cook gunned down by an errant bullet at the now closed Ka-Carlos Bar and Grill in 2009, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

The verdict means mandatory sentences of life without possibility of parole. The two were also found guilty of shooting a third man, who survived.

According to prosecutors and police, Pina and Tavares opened fire outside the restaurant on Jovany Eason early on Aug. 2, 2009. One of the bullets came through a window and hit Manuel Monteiro, a cook at the restaurant who was working two jobs to put his daughters through college - and who tried to defuse an argument among the men earlier that night.

The restaurant never recovered from the incident.

Thomas McCann, 27, was sentenced to 18 months in jail today for bashing a man's head in with a tire iron at a party he crashed in West Roxbury last year, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Diane Kottmyer technically sentenced McCann to 2 1/2 years in jail following his conviction on assault and battery causing serious bodily injury, but suspended 12 months of the sentence on the provision he stay out of trouble and take anger-management classes after he's released from jail.

Prosecutors had asked for three to five years in state prison. They said McCann's victim, 33, required brain surgery and lost 40% of his peripheral vision due to the attack.

The DA's office said McCann learned of the June 6 party on Pleasantdale Road on Facebook, then showed up with a couple of friends and his sister, who got into an argument with the victim that spilled outside around 3:40 a.m. McCann ended the argument with the tire iron, then fled in a car back to Hingham as the victim lay at the end of the driveway. Some of the victim's blood was found on the steering wheel.

Grant MacElhiney tweeted this morning:

There's a guy with a crossbow on the Green Line, car 3635 #SeeSomethingSaySomething #PleaseReportAnySuspiciousActivity

But he switched at Park Street to the Red Line, from which he departed at Harvard, Margaret Peachy tweeted.

A puckish citizen complains about a large hole off Washington Street in Downtown Crossing that has gone unfilled despite numerous past complaints.

On march through Downtown Crossing. Photo by Jeff Tamagini. More.

Occupy Boston almost had its first arrests Wednesday. Marchers moved out from Dewey Square and surrounded the Bank of America headquarters on Federal Street (where 24 had been arrested in a different protest on Friday). They began to lock hands around the entrances. Police called in prisoner transport wagons. And then, they broke for a bite to eat. Protesters also demonstrated outside Goldman Sachs offices on High Street:

Later, back at Dewey Square, one protester doused a Channel 25 photographer and his camera with water. Bill Sheerin, an assignment editor at the Fox affiliate, tweeted:

According to photog, this person stalked & taunted him before finally throwing water on his camera.

Joining the protests yesterday: students at local colleges and members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association. Princeton (and former Harvard) professor Cornel West also showed his support:

Berklee students are also on hand, lending their musical talents to the Dewey Square tent city.

The Phoenix reports on the good relations between the protesters and the city; talks to Tom Menino about it all.

Photo copyright Jeff Tamagini. Tagged as universalhub on Flickr.

Jed Hresko walked by the Apple store tonight.

Which we learn in this interview with his tailor, Egleston Square's own Rey Pimentel, who got the idea to embroider the likeness of a scorpion on a suit sleeve for Ortiz after visiting his house.

Somerville Police report they are looking for a man who attacked a woman walking in the area of Orchard Street around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday. She screamed, which apparently scared the guy off.

He's described as white, in his 30s or 40s, 5'7" to 5'9," with a dark scruffy beard with some gray in it. He had two rings on fingers on his right hand. And:

Very importantly, the suspect had a strong body odor.

If you know about the incident or the suspect, contact Somerville Police at 617-625-1212, or text SPD617 to Tip411.

Boston Police report arresting a Chinatown woman last night on charges her Hudson Street massage parlor offered a bit more than just shoulder rubs.

Police say an undercover officer, responding to "numerous complaints from community members" about sex for a fee on the third floor of 20 Hudson St. arranged for a massage around 8 p.m. yesterday:

The undercover officer, on arrival was met by an Asian woman who led him into a room and subsequently told that the price for a massage was $60.00. The undercover officer was then attended to by a second woman who then asked the officer if he required additional sexual services, it would cost him $80.00. Upon determining that this massage parlor was indeed a front for sexual services, the detective then alerted other officers who responded and detained the two parties.

Linping Gu, 50, was charged with deriving support from the earnings of a prostitute. Police say officers seized "a substantial amount of money from the suspects, ledgers and spreadsheets for the business."

Yelp review from guy disappointed he couldn't get a good massage at the massage parlor.

Innocent, etc.

Wicked Local Cambridge reports the end is this Sunday.

The Boston Public Library recently posted a ton of photos of Boston schools and students in the 1890s, including these girls in gym class at Charlestown High School in 1899 (more bar work) and this metal forging classroom at Mechanic Arts High School (now the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science) in Roxbury in 1892:

Posted under this Creative Commons license.

NorthEndWaterfront.com posts video from a Greenway Conservancy board meeting at which board members discussed the Occupy Boston encampment at Dewey Square.

Meanwhile, it looks like Occupy Boston might be putting down some roots in Copley Square.

South End Patch reports the city holds a hearing on Oct. 18 on a request from Parish Cafe to chop down a couple of trees on Tremont Street so it can put in some outdoor tables and chairs.

The Patriot Ledger reports Chelsea Orr was arrested mainly for drunk driving the other night after allegedly plowing into a tree and rolling her car over, but that Cohasset police charged her with illegal wiretapping after she told them she'd recorded some officers at the hospital on her phone. She also namedropped Bobby Orr and vowed to have the arresting officer fired because she is "very powerful," police said.

Lawsuit over state wiretapping continues.

The Daily Free Press reports the company that's built cell antennas along the Red and Orange lines is extending the service to the underground portions of the Green and Blue lines.

Whether you can actually take advantage of that depends on whether your carrier has signed a contract with the company. AT&T and T-Mobile, for example, will have systemwide coverage; Verizon has only signed a contract for four downtown stations, the Globe reports.

Friendly's makes it official, files for bankruptcy again, shuts 30 Massachusetts restaurants, including the one in Dedham, which would make me sad if only we hadn't stopped going there because the service consistently sucked.

Boston Police report they are looking for Kendrick Clark for the Sept. 22 shooting murder of Shawn Flores on Abbot Street.

Clark, 37, is described as 37, black, 5'5" with black hair, 215 lbs. and a heavy build.

He's on the lam, so police are asking for help. Know where he is? Contact the homicide unit at 617-343-4470 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting the word TIP to CRIME (27463).

2011 murders in Dorchester.