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Three arrested for shooting on Beacon Street, Beacon Hill
By adamg on Sat, 04/11/2020 - 12:18pm
Boston Police report arresting two men from Boston and one from Chelsea for a shooting near 37 Beacon St. Tuesday afternoon.
Karmau Cotton-Landers, 25, of Chelsea, and Karari Jenkins, 30, and Vinico Acosta, 25, both of Boston, were arrested yesterday on a charge of assault with intent to murder. Police say they found a loaded gun in Cotton-Landers's backpack, so he was also charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and carrying a loaded firearm on a public way.
Cotton-Landers has faced charges before.
Innocent, etc
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Thank you. BPD. Also a question
Great work, BPD. Thank you.
Question: Can anyone with better research skills than me tell me why, in the state with the supposed toughest gun laws in the US, Karmau Cotton-Landers is on the street after his 2017 charge? A 3 minute search (Plus Adam's story) found that plus others.
2017 Gun charge:
https://bpdnews.com/news/2017/10/13/one-less-gun-officers-recover-firear...
2017: Being a jerk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PeUS-4s3r4
2014: Retaliating against a witness and receiving stolen property:
https://patch.com/massachusetts/malden/6-recent-arrests-malden-0
2014: Assault with dangerous weapon
https://www.cambridgema.gov/cpd/newsandalerts/Archives/detail.aspx?path=...
It says he was caught with a
It says he was caught with a knife not a gun in 2017
Yes
It was the guy he was with who was charged for the gun. I've deleted "gun" from the reference in the original post.
Which side of Beacon Hill
n/..
No
For non-Bostonians: one side is on the Commons, the other side is towards the Charles.
Cheers existed on the Commons side but at the foot of the hill.
B.H.
Didn't this happen in the Common, by the Soldier and Sailor Monument? And the Person,shot in the hand, called Police from Beacon St. And Joy St.?