Boston Blotter: Crazy From the Heat

--Tempers flared with the temperature last night in Dorchester and East Boston. As three men stood across the street from the Dorchester YMCA, shots were fired, leaving two people wounded and one in critical condition.

A little later in East Boston, one man got shot, and another got hit "in the back of the head with a blunt object, reportedly a hatchet." A hatchet?!? We're getting nervous with all these sharp weapons like machetes and hatchets floating around East Boston.

BPD News doesn't specify if the stabbing victim was attacked with a hatchet. Whatever it was, it doesn't look good. The stabbing victim might not make it, while the person who was shot got lucky with "a non-life-threatening injury." The episode may have been triggered by the amount of crack cocaine found on the victim.

--Speaking of brazen aspiring criminals who like firing bullets into public places, the juvies who tried to spoil the Beantown Bounce dance competition by shooting into the crowd are facing high bail.

--The BPD caught a 16-year-old with a gun in Mattapan yesterday morning. In Worcester, a student found a note from another student threatening to shoot people, and the school went into lockdown. On top of that, a Methuen student was charged with writing up hit lists naming students that she wanted to kill or dismember.

--Oh, yes, there's more. A bank robber is still at large after holding up a Sovereign Bank on Mass Ave yesterday afternoon.

--In more sophisticated theft, city employees in Everett are in big trouble after five million dollars disappeared from town coffers. They have been suspended without pay for allegedly collaborating with companies to overbill the town, eventually bleeding it of such a large amount. And the city's purchasing agent and water supervisor have been fired.

Image of the David Lee Roth book from Amazon. Expect to see this one a lot in summer. And, as always, all charges alleged until proven under law.