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Raekwon Brown

By adamg - 6/28/18 - 4:30 pm

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Jaden Waiters of first-degree murder and Jonathan Aguasvivas of second-degree murder for the shooting death of Raekwon Brown, 17, outside Burke High School on June 8, 2016, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 7/25/16 - 8:31 pm

Jaden Waiters, 20, faces arraignment tomorrow for the murder of the Burke High School student on June 8, Boston Police report.

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By adamg - 6/22/16 - 12:19 pm

Boston Police report the arrest of two men on charges they gunned down Raekwon Brown outside Burke High School on June 8 - one of them who was already considered an "armed career criminal" at age 18 five years ago.

Jonathan Aguasvivas, 23, of Roxbury and Benzy Bain, 24, of Mattapan, were arraigned on murder charges in Dorchester Municipal Court. They were ordered held without bail, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Police said more people could be charged.

By adamg - 6/10/16 - 9:32 am

The Herald reports that when the gunfire started Wednesday, Raekwon Brown rushed out of a pizza place and pushed a woman down - saving her life but ending his.

The Globe talks to his relatives and teachers, who described a happy kid who "didn't know anything about the streets," and who never missed a day of school and worked hard to get As.

By adamg - 6/9/16 - 11:00 am
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The Globe reports on the teen shot to death outside Burke High School in Dorchester yesterday afternoon.

Two other students and a woman were also shot, but survived.

WBUR reports the school brought in grief counselors today.

He is Boston's 13th murder victim this year.

By adamg - 6/8/16 - 1:42 pm

Boston Police report a 17-year-old is dead from a barrage around 1:15 p.m. outside Burke High School this afternoon that also injured two other teens and a woman in her 60s.

City Council President Michelle Wu ended today's council meeting by announcing the shootings.

Photos from the scene.

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