News: Local: September 2008 Archives

-- 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,......

-- Early Sunday morning, police arrested a man in connection with a quadruple stabbing in the North End. The four teenage victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- A day earlier, on Saturday morning, an unrelated quadruple stabbing sent a quartet of East Boston teens to the hospital, two with life-threatening injuries. Police say that the victims were sitting on a stoop at 85 Trenton St. when they got into a shouting match with a group of passersby, who stabbed the youths. One arrest has been reported. [BPDNews] --......