--It seems like the only time news from Brockton reaches Boston outlets is when someone gets killed. That's true today as the Globe reports that a 15-year-old male was killed there when his 18-year-old friend's gun discharged. The Globe notes that the shooting, "...took place about an hour after Gov. Deval Patrick came to Brockton to laud local and state police for a surge of officers that had prevented any shootings since mid-February." [original report from the Boston Globe, more here]

--Shots were allegedly fired outside Ralph W. Emerson School in Roxbury today. Students were kept inside their classrooms until police investigated the school (PDF), which is on Shirley Street and teaches students from kindergarten through fifth grade. [Boston Herald]

--A suspect who was facing child rape and incest charges in New Bedford hurt himself while attempting to escape the courthouse where he was being arraigned. While being treated at a nearby hospital, an officer allegedly let him escape after taking off his handcuffs so he could use the bathroom. The suspect supposedly went out a different exit and fled the hospital. According to the Herald, he was, "being held on $500,000 cash bail prior to the escape for allegedly raping a teen-age relative and assaulting a 60-year-old disabled woman during several incidents from 2004 to 2006 in Swansea, Nantucket and Rhode Island." He is considered dangerous. [Boston Herald]

All charges alleged until proven under law.