-- Elvia McField, 56, was found stabbed to death in her home on Amory St., near the boundary between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Police arrested 66-year-old Charles Cherry and charged him with the murder. [WCVB; BPDNews]

-- A 25-year-old woman was raped at gunpoint at the Back Bay Orange Line station yesterday evening, and police have arrested a 48-year-old parolee for committing the crime. The woman was approached by her assailant while on the subway platform and coerced into the dark stairway leading toward the Columbus Ave. exit, according to authorities. She escaped after kicking the suspect's gun away and was treated for sexual assault and other injuries at New England Medical Center.

Despite two 911 calls made by witnesses of the attack, Transit Police did not respond to the scene of the crime, but took a statement from the victim in the hospital. Richard Flowers was arrested by police the next day on the front porch of his Roxbury home after he allegedly tried to buy jewelry with the victim's credit card. [Globe; Herald]

-- Louis Josue, 21, was arrested yesterday in connection with a shooting in West Roxbury. [WBZTV]

-- A downtown 7 Eleven clerk was beaten with a whiffle ball bat. [BPDNews]

-- John Connoly, Whitey Bulger's FBI lackey, begins trial today in the 1982 murder of John B. Callahan, a man who had been poised to testify against the gangster. [Globe]

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