--Yesterday afternoon, a person was shot in the chest and side in Roxbury on Langdon Street. The Globe noted that the incident was a block away from a playground. That's bad enough, but the Herald connected more dots and noted that the shooting was in front of the same house where a standoff between Cape Verdean gang members and police took place.

--A homeless man died in an accident yesterday at the Pine Street Inn. In the parking lot of the shelter, a Pine Street employee who drove a food service truck started his vehicle, but, unbeknownst to the driver, a homeless man was under the truck at the time. No one knows why the man was under the car.

--In Quincy last night, two men were stabbed outside Sully's Cafe on Chestnut Street. They may have been attacked by someone on a skateboard who stabbed them and took off. Police did arrest a skateboarding suspect.

--Hello, CSI! Police are crediting a DNA database for helping them find and arrest a suspect in the rape of a 6-year-old boy last year in Hyannis. Police ran DNA found at the scene, ran it against a sex-offender database, and matched it with that of 40-year-old John Cox, who has a history of assaulting children.

All charges alleged until proven under law. Image from FBI.gov.