Victim identified as Jackson Beausejour, 33, of Mattapan.
A man in his 30s was shot at Blue Hill Avenue and Washington Street in Grove Hall around 7:45 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said.
Somebody began firing a gun shortly after 10:05 p.m. on Shawmut Avenue at Lenox Street. Nobody hit.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted a New Hampshire man with Dorchester roots on a first-degree murder charge for shooting a man enjoying Father's Day with his family in a Roxbury park in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Franklin Park Zoo announces the birth of a new Masai giraffe, to parents Amari and Chad.
Amari and her calf are currently bonding behind the scenes. The baby’s public exhibit debut will be announced on the Zoo’s social media channels and website when the time comes.
The Trustees of Reservations and the city formally dedicate the Winthrop Community Garden, 25 Winthrop St. in Roxbury, between 10 a.m. and noon on Saturday.
The city's newest community garden features a large metal statute honoring the Black Panther Party by Killion Mokwete, an assistant professor of architecture at Northeastern.
A routine ride on the Silver Line to Nubian Square turned into a terror trip for one woman, who was punched and kicked to the floor, where she huddled into the fetal position, by a group of eight teenagers who set on her for no particular reason, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says. Read more.
Ed. note: Amount sought changed after the court docket was changed.
A man whose mother agreed to have her body donated to Harvard Medical School in 2017 today sued both Harvard and now former mortuary director Cedric Lodge for $5 million for the way Lodge allegedly ran the school mortuary as a body-parts bazaar until his arrest earlier this year. Read more.
From the complaint: Lodge and his Grim Reaper license plate.
If nothing else, Anne Weiss argues, the license plate on Cedric Lodge's car should have made officials at Harvard Medical School suspicious what their mortuary director was up to all those years. But they weren't, Weiss claims, and so they're as much to blame for the grief that has fallen over her and other people whose relatives willed their bodies to medical research - only to learn last month that Lodge was busy selling off brains, faces and other body parts to a ghoulish ring of collectors. Read more.
A man was shot in the leg in the area of 616 Shawmut Ave., next to Ramsay Park around 9:25 p.m.
A spent shell was found half a block away on Trotter Court.
Boston Police report arresting a former Dorchester man now living in Brockton on charges he gunned down Hanser Abraham Moreta-Gonzalez, 26, on Shawmut Avenue across from Ramsay Park last September. Read more.
State Police report a woman in a wheelchair died Monday afternoon after the driver of the van she was in veered off the Riverway and into a tree at the intersection with Longwood Avenue. Read more.
MassDOT reports there were "major delays" on the Expressway southbound this morning due to separate big-rig rollovers. One truck ended on its side, spilling fuel and forcing the shutdown of three lanes near Southampton Street, then another truck jackknifed near Savin Hill, forcing two lanes shut. The trucks and messes were cleared arond 10:30 a.m., MassDOT says.
Boston Police report arresting Demone Coleman, 44, of Dorchester, on charges he gunned down Christopher Shivers, 43, on Columbus Avenue in Egleston Square late on Feb. 8. Read more.
The manager of New York Pizza, 35 Massachusetts Ave. at Columbus Avenue, acknowledged today that not long after he called 911 to report that a panhandler who had been denied his customary free slice was refusing to leave on March 11, he called 911 back to report the man had a knife and was attempting to rob customers. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court agreed with a jury today that Lazaro Miranda murdered his girlfriend in her Seaver Street apartment building with a machete in 1997, but that a key omission in jury instructions by the judge in the case means the Suffolk County District Attorney's office has to decide whether to accept a change in his sentence from first- to second-degree murder or whether it wants to re-try him on a charge of first-degree murder on the grounds of "extreme atrocity or cruelty." Read more.
Covid-19 isn't dead yet: WFXT reports Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center yesterday reported a "recent outbreak of Covid-19 among staff and patients." The patients were put into an isolation ward and, at least around them, the hospital brought back the universal masking requirements it gave up along with other hospitals last month.
A man ordered out of a car that was wanted in connection with a Roxbury shooting in 2019 can't be charged for possession of the loaded gun police found on him because officers didn't have probable cause to search him, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today. Read more.
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