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Person shot on Heath Street; suspects traced to H Block

adamg — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:06:27 +0000

4/6/13 - 11:55 pm

Police are at Heath and Lawn streets, where a person was found shot in the leg shortly before midnight. He is expected to survive.

A car seen fleeing the scene with two or three occupants was spotted around 20 minutes later in the area of Harold and Homestead streets, in the territory of the H Block gang; a gun was located on Hutchings Street nearby.

Last month, a Braintree man with alleged ties to the Heath Street gang was arrested on charges he shot a man on Holworthy Street in the heart of H Block territory.

DA: JP gang member who really wanted to shoot somebody on turf of rival Roxbury gang succeeded on second try

adamg — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:16:30 +0000

A Braintree man associated with Jamaica Plain's Heath Street gang was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bail today on charges he shot somebody on the home turf of the rival H-Block gang on Friday after he allegedly tried but failed to shoot somebody else on the same street the night before, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Prosecutors had asked for bail of $1 million for Paul Walrond, 22, of Braintree, at his arraignment today in Roxbury District Court. Judge David Weingarten set the lower amount.

H Block vs. Heath Street? Man shot on Holworthy Street, suspect arrested on Heath Street

adamg — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 18:49:21 +0000

3/8/13 - 7:40 pm

Boston Police report finding a man shot around 7:50 p.m. yesterday at 41 Holworthy St. in Roxbury's H Block area.

The victim is in stable condition, police say.

Police say a witness reported a black Cadillac fleeing the scene. Not long after, police say:

Wiretaps aimed at gangs may have averted a gun battle at Roxbury court

adamg — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:34:34 +0000

Glove compartment of rental car outside Roxbury District Court on Oct. 23.

On Oct. 23 of last year, detectives who'd been listening in on the phone conversations of two gang leaders as part of a year-long investigation had to risk exposing their surveillance: One of the two had just given a minion the go-ahead to take out a rival gang member. And not in some remote location - but right in the lobby of Roxbury District Court.

Police seek the gang member who got away

adamg — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:53:36 +0000

Boston Police report they are looking for Jackson Barros, 30, of Dorchester, in connection with today's early morning raids aimed at breaking up two Dorchester gangs involved in drugs and guns.

This would not be Barros's first arrest. In 2003, he was charged with distributing crack in Roxbury.

Anybody who knows his whereabouts can call the anonymous tip line at 800-494-TIPS or text TIP to CRIME (27463).

Innocent, etc.

Police target violent Bowdoin/Geneva gangs in overnight raids

adamg — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:34:09 +0000

Several hundred Boston police officers and federal agents swarmed through Dorchester early this morning, arresting some 30 alleged members of the Woodward Avenue and Hendry Street gangs in a bid to quell violence in the Bowdoin/Geneva and Uphams Corner neighborhoods - in particular in the Cape Verdean community.

Officials specifically targeted alleged Hendry leader Alexis Hidalgo, 31, of Dorchester, and alleged Woodward leader Jonathan DaSilva, 29, of Roxbury, in an investigation that began in 2011. In a statement, the US Attorney's office said:

H Block: Where children are shot in a gang war that goes back decades

adamg — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:43:19 +0000

The Globe reports today that Gabriel Clarke, the 13-year-old choirboy shot at Humboldt Avenue and Homestead Street while walking to church last night, is in critical but stable condition.

His shooting is just the latest in an endless string of gun violence in an area just north of Franklin Park known as H Block because most of the street names start with H - Humboldt, Homestead, Harold, Harrishof, Holworthy - and in the area around the Bromley-Heath housing project in Jamaica Plain.

The H Block Gang and the rival Heath Street Gang have been shooting at each other - and at completely innocent bystanders since the 1980s. Children and teens who have nothing at all to do with the battling often wind up as victims as gang members just drive onto their rival's turf and start firing.

Bromley-Heath gang member's murder conviction overturned; rap video plays role in decision

adamg — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:32:04 +0000

UPDATE: Reactions from the DA's office and the victim's family in the comments below.

The Supreme Judicial Court today ordered a new trial for Lamory Gray, ruling the Heath Street gang member got an unfair trial before he was convicted of murdering somebody he thought was a member of the rival H-Block gang in 2006.

The court ruled a rap video, in which Gray was seen apparently pledging as a member of Heath Street, should not have been entered as evidence in his 2009 trial because it unfairly prejudiced the jury against him without having any direct connection to Herman Taylor's murder. Taylor was a Metco student who had nothing to do with gangs.