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By adamg - 3/18/19 - 5:24 pm

David Delacruz, 31, pleaded guilty last week to assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a disabled person, assault and battery for the purposes of intimidation, and violation of a victim’s civil rights for an incident in 2017 in which he knocked a woman out of her wheelchair, then stabbed her repeatedly, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 2/1/19 - 9:30 pm

One car was hit during an incident shortly after 9 p.m. outside 71 Westminster Ave., in which as many as nine shots may have been fired. No people were hit.

By adamg - 1/20/19 - 3:06 pm

Boston Police report charging Victor Rodriguez, 28, with murder following a gun battle that left Carl Reynolds, 28, dead Friday afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 8/2/18 - 10:30 pm

The Mobil station at Columbus Avenue and Washington Street was held up around 10:15 p.m. The suspect is described as a black male, 5'3" with a slim build and wearing a blue T-shirt and black pants, who fled on foot.

By adamg - 8/2/18 - 10:02 pm

On Wardman Road, off Westminster Avenue, around 9:55 p.m.

By adamg - 6/14/18 - 5:28 pm

Stabbed several times, around 5:20 p.m. outside 9 Notre Dame St., off Washington Street.

By adamg - 5/30/18 - 10:12 pm

Boston and Transit Police are investigating how a man wound up stabbed and on an inbound Orange Line train that pulled into Back Bay around 10 p.m.

The man was stabbed at 10 Atherton St. in Egleston Square, then walked to Jackson Square - where he got on the T.

By adamg - 3/26/18 - 8:50 am
MBTA and school bus after crash in Egleston Square

Photo of T bus by Rick Macomber, photo of school bus by Jenn Brandel.

Updated with statement by Transit Police.

Transit Police report the driver of a 44 bus didn't stop for a flashing red light at Columbus Avenue and Washington Street around 5:45 a.m. and ran into a BPS school bus already in the intersection. Read more.

By adamg - 3/25/18 - 12:57 pm

KMV reports a man was shot on Westminster Avenue near Washington Street early this morning. Somebody put him in a car and wound up at Blue Hill Avenue and Warren Street, where police were investigating an unrelated crash. EMTs were summoned, the man was taken to the hospital in bad shape - the homicide unit was called in due to the severity of his injuries.

By adamg - 3/21/18 - 11:28 pm

Boston Restaurant Talk reports the Gate on Washington Street in Egleston Square has closed its doors, barely 11 months after it opened as a replacement for the shuttered James's Gate on South Street.

The building housing the Gate was posted for sale today.

By adamg - 1/1/18 - 3:10 pm

A man walked into the McDonald's on American Legion Highway in Roslindale around 2:45 p.m., ordered some chicken, then grabbed money out of the register and fled. About ten minutes later, a man walked into the McDonald's on Washington Street in Egleston Square and pulled the same stunt. Read more.

By adamg - 12/12/17 - 2:13 pm
Egleston Square proposal

Architect's rendering.

The Board of Appeal today approved the Elizabeth Stone House's proposal for a 32-unit apartment building at 3012 Washington St., on the Roxbury side of Egleston Square, in which all the units would be rented as affordable. Read more.

By adamg - 11/17/17 - 5:42 pm

WBZ reports on the incident this afternoon on School Street - in which a police officer fired a shot at the fleeing gunman's car, a white Audi, after the driver backed into him. He was not seriously injured.

By adamg - 10/9/17 - 4:02 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man and two teens on charges they broke into Alex Market, 1985 Columbus Ave., around 2 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.

By adamg - 9/20/17 - 7:28 pm

School Superintendent Tommy Chang today notified students, staff and parents at Greater Egleston High School that "Headmaster Julie Coles is on leave due to an ongoing internal investigation." Read more.

By adamg - 9/8/17 - 12:15 am

Around 11:15 p.m. on Washington Street near Beethoven Street. Shell fragments recovered, but no victims.

By adamg - 6/25/17 - 12:31 am

Around 12:25 a.m. at 72 Bragdon St., off Ernst Street.

By adamg - 6/13/17 - 6:46 pm

Around 6:15 p.m. at Columbus Avenue and Washington Street, right in front of the Egleston House of Pizza.

By adamg - 5/13/17 - 9:08 pm
Egleston Square crash

Darlene photographed the aftermath of a crash shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Washington Street, just north of Columbus Avenue. At least two people were taken to local emergency rooms.

By adamg - 4/30/17 - 8:44 am

Around midnight on Washington Street, on the JP side of Columbus, per Boston EMS Incidents.

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