Mattapan

Mattapan man charged with stabbing woman in his apartment - but what was she doing there?

adamg — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:44:02 +0000

Jimmy Ammons's attorney acknowledges a struggle inside his apartment yesterday morning ended with a woman rushed to the hospital near death and Ammons fleeing to his mother's house in Dorchester.

But at his arraignment in Dorchester District Court today, Virgen Palermo said the reason the woman was in the apartment to begin with - and what the two were fighting about - could determine the outcome of the case against Ammons, a laid off city DPW sign painter now facing charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to murder.

Stabbing in Cummins Highway apartment building leaves one near death

adamg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:46:43 +0000

2/2/12 - 12:10 pm

UPDATE: A source says the victim, a woman, is now expected to survive and that a man is in custody.

Somebody was stabbed shortly after noon in an apartment at 884 Cummins Highway and was rushed to Boston Medical Center. Homicide detectives were summoned to the scene - routine whenever there's a chance the victim might die. Police are looking for a 1998 Volvo S7 with Mass. plates of 462 HD7.

He's on track

adamg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:02:17 +0000

Victoria Welch spotted this guy this morning gazing at Fort Point Channel - from down on one of the tracks once used to swing the bridge open:

I don't know how he got down there, but I hope he was just curious about the view.

Day of violence along Mattapan street included a masked man shooting repeatedly into a packed car

adamg — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:56:51 +0000

District E-18 reports on one of the shootings that erupted along Greenfield Street on the Hyde Park/Mattapan line on Monday:

Around 9:30 p.m., officers responded to reports of gunfire in the Fairlawn Estates apartment complex (where a woman was strangled last month). Not long after, two people showed up at Carney Hospital with gunshot wounds:

The victims reported leaving the area of 60 Fairlawn Street in a motor vehicle when one victim observed a black male with a black hat and a black ski mask leaning over the fence in the rear of the parking lot and firing a gun into the motor vehicle occupied by several of the victims. Two victims inside the vehicle suffered non-life threatening injuries. One victim was treated for a graze and a second victim was treated for a gunshot wound to the arm.

Police continue to investigate the shootings, along with two other incidents involving gunfire but no injuries along Greenfield earlier in the day.

Gunmen get out of car, start shooting, don't hit anybody on Hyde Park/Mattapan line

adamg — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:55:32 +0000

1/2/12 - 2:45 pm

Boston Police are looking for two men with guns who got out of a small gray or tan car at Greenfield and Ridlon streets around 2:45 p.m., fired at least four times, then got back in their car and drove toward River Street. The car may have New Jersey plates.

UPDATE: Ed Gryzb reports more gunfire without injuries around 9:45 p.m. at Richmere and Cummins a few blocks away. About 30 minutes later, Brian D'Amico reports, somebody walked into Carney Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm from an incident at the Fairlawn apartments in Mattapan at the opposite end of Greenfield.

Trolley driver punched in the face at Mattapan station

adamg — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:23:37 +0000

12/20/11 - 2:15 pm

A teenager was arrested this afternoon on charges he punched the operator of a trolley about to leave Mattapan for Ashmont, the MBTA says.

A spokeswoman said the incident happened around 2:15 and that investigators do not yet know why the teen decided to punch. The operator was taken to a local hospital for a non-life-threatening facial injury; the teen was nabbed nearby.

Criminal pro tip: If you see a bunch of guys talking, don't try to mug one of them

adamg — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:00:50 +0000

12/16/11 - 8:39 pm

Boston Police report a Hyde Park man who tried to rob a man talking to some friends last night quickly found himself tackled and pinned to the ground by the man's friends.

Police: Officer fired on gunman aiming loaded weapon at him; man captured without injury

adamg — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:45:37 +0000

12/13/11 - 11:30 am

Boston Police report officers were able to capture a guy roaming Mattapan Square with a loaded gun yesterday without injury to either them or him.

Josiah Sterling, 22, of West Roxbury, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, carrying a loaded firearm, assault by means of a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest following the incident around 11:30 a.m. along River Street near Mattapan Square.

Roxbury man charged with strangling woman to death in Mattapan apartment

adamg — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:52:27 +0000

Eldrick Broom, 27, was arrested yesterday on charges he sexually assaulted and then murdered Rosanna Camilo, a Dominican resident who had moved to Boston to obtain medical care for her young son.

Broom is scheduled for arraignment today in Dorchester District Court on charges he strangled Camilo in her 50 Fairlawn Ave. apartment on Nov. 21, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The DA's office says Broom gained access to her apartment building through an associate who had formerly lived there.

Four days after the murder, Broom was arrested in Brookline on charges of open and gross lewdness after a woman reported him urinating against a wall near the Devotion School.

Camilo, daughter of a prominent Dominican broadcaster, left three children. Her youngest son, in the apartment at the time of the murder, was found physically unharmed.

Innocent, etc.

Her name was Rosanna Camilo and she was murdered, police say

adamg — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:20:04 +0000

Boston Police have determined Rosanna Camilo, 34, was murdered in her apartment at 50 Fairlawn Ave. in Mattapan yesterday - leaving behind her one-year-old son, who was found unharmed in the apartment.

Camilo was the daughter of Rubén Camilo, a broadcaster in the Dominican Republic. ElNacional.com in the Dominican Republic interviewed her father, who said she had moved to Boston from Washington so that her son could receive treatment at Children's Hospital for an unspecified medical problem.

Man shot repeatedly in same complex where woman's body was found

adamg — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:51:19 +0000

11/21/11 - 7:50 pm

Even as police were continuing to investigate the sudden death of a woman at one end of Fairlawn Avenue in Mattapan tonight, a man was being shot three or four times at the other end, AlertNewEngland reports.

The man was shot in a parking lot off Bismarck Street shortly before 8 p.m. He told police he had no idea who shot him or which way he fled. The woman's body was found at the other end of the complex at 50 Fairlawn Ave.. Three years ago, a baby being held by his father was shot in the liver at 70 Fairlawn; two years ago, two bodies were discovered in 50 Fairlawn.

Woman found dead in Mattapan apartment

adamg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:52:24 +0000

11/21/11 - 4:30 pm

UPDATE: Ruled a murder.

Boston Police tweet they are investigating the death of a woman in her 30s in an apartment at 50 Fairlawn Ave.

Boston's poor neighborhoods getting poorer

adamg — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:16:20 +0000

The Globe reports on a study by the Boston Foundation of poverty in Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan.

The report ties Boston to a global trend linking race, class, and income disparities. It also illustrates the toll exacted by the depressed economy in extremely poor communities plagued by inadequate health care, lack of jobs, and persistent crime.

The ribs on Morton Street are extra smoky tonight

adamg — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:58:31 +0000

Boston firefighters responded around 5:30 p.m. to the Pit Stop, a part-time rib and chicken place at Morton and Evans streets after a kitchen fire erupted - in a building that's pretty much just a kitchen. This is not the first fire at the Pit Stop.

11/4/11 - 5:30 pm

Man out on bail in connection with triple murder arrested on gun charges in Mattapan

adamg — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:30:47 +0000

10/17/11 - 6:32 pm

A man awaiting trial on charges he drove the shooter away from a 2009 triple murder in Dorchester was charged Monday evening with possession of a gun loaded with hollow-point bullets, according to Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Nigel A. Nichols, 25, of Brockton, was one of several men sitting in front of a house on Osceola Street in Mattapan around 6:30 p.m., drinking out of red cups when officers on patrol came by, police say. According to police, the group scattered - but Nichols scattered faster than the others: