June 28, 2007
Boston Blotter: Shooting at Ruggles T Stop - Updated
UPDATE: The Orange Line is running again according to an MBTA rep.
We're running the blotter early because Ruggles is shut down following a shooting on a train. WBZ reports that a 19-year-old went to Boston Medical Center.
WCVB had more – the man was hit in the leg, it happened on the last car, and two black men ran off after the shooting.
MBTA says the following on its site:
Substitute bus service will run between Jackson Square and Back Bay due to a police action at Ruggles Station. Normal Orange Line service will run from Back Bay to Oak Grove and Jackson to Forest Hills.
"Police action." Talk about understatement. It looked like the T police maybe, just maybe, had everything under control after the two stabbings at the Back Bay T stop.
--Seventeen-year-old Ezekiel Cuthbert, of Randolph, was shot to death at a gas station late yesterday afternoon. The fight started at a Dunkies, and the killer was so angry at Cuthbert that he trailed him on foot and shot him a half mile away.
The Globe spoke to one father who took his own 13-year-old to the crime scene for an object lesson: "I tell my son, 'You can't get into arguments because these kids now get guns just as easy as they get cigarettes.'"
It took a while for police to find the suspect, but police eventually tracked down 16-year-old Malcolm Carnes.
--Elsewhere, a person was stabbed early this morning in Dorchester, and two guys allegedly broke into Taft Middle School. If you are a burglar, it makes sense to rob a school in summer, but they might have waited for a cooler day to do it. The BPD noted that the guys were "extremely sweaty."
All charges alleged until proven under law.



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