Boston Blotter: Big Red Saves a Life

--Several shootings happened last night in Dorchester and Roxbury. An unidentified man was killed and 27-year-old Sabrina Smith was shot in the leg at about 5:15 pm in Dorchester, and about 30 minutes later, 20-year-old Jerome Wells was killed in Roxbury.

Police apprehended two suspects in the Wells slaying because an officer was there to witness the incident. The BPD is lucky only one person died – a bystander, Hector Miranda, was almost hit by a bullet that shattered his driver's side window. Luckily, he had stepped out to buy a pack of Big Red gum, and he told the Herald, “(Expletive) Big Red saved my life.” That part's kind of funny. The rest of it, not at all.

--New City Council member Bill Linehan went from a high to a crushing low last night when his son, Sean Linehan, was stabbed in South Boston outside the Teriyaki House. The Herald calls the wounds serious.

--Spencer is dealing with what appears to be a murder-suicide case. Cheri Robinson hadn't showed up to work, so police went to her home. While they were there, her husband, Paul Robinson, called and said he killed her and that he had his two kids in the house with him. Things got so tense that neighbors were evacuated, and, after the kids got out of the house, Robinson shot himself to death.

--Michael Baggott, the dad who ran onto the field during a Red Sox-Orioles game is speaking out and apologizing to his son, whom he was trying to impress. He said, "When I looked up and saw the shock on his face . . . it was not the look I was hoping for." It seems that the son has more sense than the father, and the father recognizes it.