Shawmut

Person jumps in front of Red Line train, but lives

Brockton24_7 reports somebody jumped in front of an inbound Red Line train at Shawmut around 5:30 a.m. and that she was pulled out from under the second car alert and conscious. The T substituted buses between Ashmont and JFK/UMass.

Man charged with attacking women at Red Line stations

WyattMBTA Transit Police report arresting a Roxbury man on charges he indecently assaulted a woman around 11 a.m. on Sept. 28 at Shawmut and then another woman around 9 a.m. on Oct. 2 at Andrew.

Police say Xavier Wyatt, 19, grabbed the first woman as she standing on the platform and the second woman as she was getting on a train. He was arrested this morning at Community College on the Orange Line.

Innocent, etc.

Police make weighty arrest outside Shawmut T stop

BeechMBTA Transit Police report arresting a man they say used a dolly to try to steal a 441-pound bomb-resistant trash barrel from the Shawmut stop on the Red Line.

Officers found Patrick Beech, 23, wheeling the "bomb-mitigation barrel" down Hancock Street on a hand truck, covered with a blanket, according to a police report. The large silver cylinder is designed to resist the impact of any explosions from devices tossed in it. The police report includes this narrative:

Man shot to death near Shawmut T stop

Boston Police report a 30-year-old man died after being shot repeatedly at Dayton Street and Clementine Park around 11:30 p.m. yesterday

The Globe reports the man was found on the grounds of the Shawmut T stop. Initial reports said the man had been shot in the back. He is Dorchester's 17th murder victim this year.

Two fine-looking T stops in Dorchester

Candelaria congratulates the MBTA for the new look of the Fields Corner and Shawmut stops on the Red Line:

... The new Fields Corner and Shawmut Stations on the Red Line in Dorchester are great examples of how good design can transform. They new stations are so beautiful, in fact, that they almost ... almost obliterate the memory of just how dreary and depressing these stations were. ...