Police swarm Ames Street. Photo by Gavin Schoch.
Five people were shot - including a 14-year-old shot in the ankle and an 11-year-old - on Ames Street in the Franklin Field development around 8:40 p.m., Boston Area Public Safety Alerts and Stanley Staco report. Read more.
A dispute during a dominoes match over who knows more about the Jamaican capital of Kingston ended with one player going after the other two with a machete in the Franklin Field development in Dorchester on Aug. 25, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Officer looks in Escalade that had just been shot up. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports a man who pumped several bullets into another driver for rear-ending him last night on Westview Street in Dorchester's Franklin Field development was arrested less than two hours later after he showed back up in his hometown of Brockton, where State Police were looking for him . Read more.
A person was shot at 92 Westview St. in the Franklin Field development shortly around 9:40 p.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
Unlike in some other states, you still need a license to own a gun in Massachusetts. The state's highest court ruled today that in certain cases, judges can order people arrested for violating the law to be held without bail before trial as a danger to society - such as a man arrested after driving through a police barricade at the Franklin Field housing project early one morning last year, allegedly with a loaded gun in his glove compartment Read more.
Shortly before 8:50 p.m. at Westview and Ames streets, Stanley Staco reports. One victim was transported to a trauma center, the second made his own way to a local hospital.
Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Victim identified as Tanaya Perkins, 30.
Boston Police report a man and a woman were shot at 240 Westview St. in the Franklin Field development around 9 p.m. Read more.
Police can't use stored body-camera video collected inside a home in one case as evidence to arrest somebody in another case without first getting a warrant to search it, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today. Read more.
Update: Victim identified as Rolando Verdejo, 42.
Shortly before midnight at at 5 Ames St., between Ames Way and Westview Street. Read more.
Several shots were reported behind Ames Street in the Franklin Field development around 9:30. Not long after, police found spent shells there and what appeared to be bullet damage to an Ames Street building. And not long after that, somebody showed up at a local emergency room with a gunshot wound not considered life threatening.
Murder victim identified as Jared Brown, 24, of Mattapan.
Boston Police report a man was fatally shot around 3:40 a.m. at 91 Westview St. in Franklin Field. Read more.
In the leg, around 11:10 p.m. between Stratton and Ames streets. Injuries not considered life threatening. Read more.
Shortly before 2 a.m., NBC Boston reports. Injuries not considered life threatening.
Boston Police report fugitive-unit officers flew to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic yesterday to arrest Freidy Baez, 30, for the stabbing murder of George Sanchez at 5 Ames St. on Sept. 21, 2014.
A car was hit by gunfire shortly after 1:45 p.m. on Westview Street at Westview Way. No people hit.
At 20 Stratton St. around 11:10 a.m. Because of the severity of the victim's injuries, the homicide unit has been called in.
A suspect is in custody.
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