Boston Blotter: Man Shot Dead in Roslindale Home

-- A 50-year-old man was shot dead in his Roslindale home early this morning, apparently after answering his front door. Boston police have a suspect: a light-skinned black male in his teens. No motive for the killing has been advanced. [BPDNews, Herald]

-- A 9-year old girl was abducted today, possibly during an armed robbery, on River St. in Hyde Park. [Herald]

-- The 17-year-old Worcester girl charged with murdering her son with a teddy bear had watched her younger brother die. [Herald]

-- A man was arrested last week in Somerville for allegedly barging into a home and demanding an iPhone at knifepoint. [Somerville Journal]

-- A group of louts in Union Square beat a 22-year-old man after slandering his girlfriend, whom they alleged was a "douchebag," authorities say. [Somerville Journal]

-- Bobby Brown (not the wife beater) won a victory for religious freedom when the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that his employer could not force him to hide his beard and dreadlocks, sacred to Rastafari. The Herald's headline? "The Dread Lock Decision." Yes, the paper compared a case about Rastafarian religious freedom to the decision that held black people to be property. Stay classy, Herald! [Herald]

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