Boston Blotter: Psych Patient Shot Dead During Attack

Blotter-Body-Outline.jpg -- Boston's hospitals are dangerous places these days. A psychiatric patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital Bipolar Treatment Center was shot dead by an off-duty security guard this afternoon after the patient allegedly stabbed his doctor. The doctor, who was shuttled bleeding from her clinic and is listed in stable condition. [Herald]

-- Boston cops arrested a Taunton man yesterday after he allegedly refused to give his girlfriend her car back after borrowing it. During the arrest, the suspect allegedly stabbed a cop, yelling "I'm going to take one of you motherfuckers with me." Perhaps he did not realize that he was going to jail, not the hospital. [BPDNews]

-- A man who had immigrated to Massachusetts from Egypt was shot to death during a robbery of the Taunton gas station where he worked. [Herald]

-- Waltham cops have the skinny, so to speak, on Glen "Big Baby" Davis's scuffle with his friend Shawn Bridgewater. Apparently, Davis brawls shirtless. We don't like imagining that. [Herald]

-- A Cambridge woman's boyfriend of 20 years allegedly threatened her with violence via text message after she broke things off. [Cambridge Chronicle]

All charges alleged until proven under law.

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