Boston Police report arresting James Nelson, 26, of Boston, for a triple shooting on Westminster Avenue in Roxbury on Oct. 26 that killed Hamza Warsame of Medford. Read more.
Roxbury
By adamg - 12/5/19 - 6:56 pm
Harrison's tattoos - 100 is a gang symbol, feds say.
The US Attorney's office in Boston today announced the indictments of 62 alleged members of Massachusetts chapters of the national Latin Kings gang on racketeering charges. Among them: Shaun "Rev" Harrison, sentenced to 23 to 26 years in prison last year for shooting an English High School student in the head because the kid owed him money for the marijuana Harrison was having him sell. Read more.
By adamg - 12/4/19 - 1:39 pm
WFXT reports on the situation at English High School in Jamaica Plain and the O'Bryant School and Madison Park, next to each other in Roxbury. The schools were put in "safe" mode," in which students and teachers try to go on with their days normally even as all external doors are locked to keep people out; the schools are now back to regular mode.
By adamg - 12/3/19 - 9:55 am
Update, 10:40 a.m.: T says Orange Line trains are rolling again, but with 10-minute delays.
The MBTA, which first reported 15-minute delays on the Orange Line southbound, has now suspended all service entirely on the line between Haymarket and Tufts Medical Center - and telling riders who want to get anywhere between North Station and Copley Square to use the Green Line instead. Read more.
By adamg - 12/2/19 - 10:12 pm
Report for America, which "places talented, emerging journalists into local news organizations to report for one to two years on under-covered issues and communities," announced today that the Bay State Banner will get one of them - to cover "how state legislative and city hall actions affect Boston’s African-American communities."
Via Sarah Betancourt.
By adamg - 11/26/19 - 8:13 pm
On Dimock Street near Washington Street, around 8 p.m. Numerous shell casings recovered.
By adamg - 11/21/19 - 2:53 pm
The Boston Sun reports on the new members of the Mass/Cass 2.0 Task Force.
By adamg - 11/20/19 - 9:20 pm
Victim shot several times, found on Holborn Street at Glenburne Street, off Warren Street, around 9:10 p.m. Two houses and a car also hit with gunfire.
By adamg - 11/19/19 - 8:17 pm
The state House of Representatives voted 153-1 today in favor of a bill that would ban the use of handheld electronic devices while driving. State Rep. Chynah Tyler of Roxbury (D-7th Suffolk), who cast the lone opposing vote, says she doesn't oppose the basic idea, but that the bill did not contain any provisions to collect data to ensure minority drivers won't be singled out for enforcement. Read more.
By adamg - 11/19/19 - 12:04 am
WBZ reports the shot missed an officer sitting at a desk Monday night.
By adamg - 11/16/19 - 12:10 am
Architect's rendering.
Northeastern University and American Campus Communities of Austin, TX this week filed plans with the BPDA for a 26-story building that would include 21 floors of dorm space atop five floors of academic and office space - and that would let the school sell off other dorm buildings to be turned into tax-generating rental apartments or condos. Read more.
By adamg - 11/12/19 - 9:13 am
The Bay State Banner surveys the shifting of the line between Dorchester and Roxbury over the centuries.
By adamg - 11/8/19 - 5:47 pm
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Burhan Ud Din, 50, of Watertown, to three years of probation and 500 hours of community service for his participation in a scheme by Pakistani natives to defraud the IRS through a chain of fried-chicken joints in the Boston area. Read more.
By adamg - 11/5/19 - 4:36 pm
A man caught with a gun during a BPD sweep after a double murder at Jamaica Plain's Mildred Hailey Apartments was sentenced today to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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Recent Roxbury crime
Shots fired on Dimock Street in Roxbury, 11/26/19
Man shot on Holborn Street in Roxbury, 11/20/19
Gunfire at Ruggles T stop; nobody hit, 10/31/19