-- A 10-year-old girl was shot in the leg Friday night in Roxbury while playing outside her house on Creston Street. The gunman allegedly rode up her block on a red scooter, firing repeatedly before fleeing through neighborhood backyards. The Roxbury street had been the scene of a fatal shooting a week prior to the event. [Herald]
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Memorial Day weekend brought tragic violence in addition to outdoor grilling and Quebecois forest fires. At least four people were murdered in Boston over the weekend, including a 14-year-old boy.
-- The murder of 14-year-old Jaewon Martin last Saturday was the most tragic event in a series of possibly related shootings that have swept Boston. Martin, who was murdered nearly the Bromley-Heath houses in Jamaica Plain, was an honors student at Timilty Middle School. His death has galvanized community ire against gang-related shootings. [BPDNews, Herald]
-- Machetes are everywhere in Somerville, and they aren't being used to clear the city's magnificent brush. A few days after the combined machete-slingshot attack on Pearl Street, Somerville cops picked up a pair of men in connection to an unrelated machete-related robbery, this time also involving a brick. [Somerville News]
-- After allegedly stabbing somebody several times in Mattapan, a 29-year-old Boston man swiped a car equipped with Lojack, leading police precisely to his whereabouts, according to authorities. When cops responding to the alleged and allegedly unrelated car theft arrested the man, they discovered that he was the suspect wanted in the earlier stabbing. [BPDNews]
-- If there's one mantra that criminals should learn, it's "one crime at a time." A 21-year-old Somerville man could have used that advice Tuesday night when he allegedly disturbed the peace in East Boston by having a loud fight on the streets with his girlfriend, whom he also allegedly threatened. When police investigated, they discovered that he allegedly had several outstanding warrants and three bags of heroin. [BPDNews]
The Biblical flooding across Boston has unfortunately not kept the crime rate low. Boston police report a spate of shootings—both fatal and non-life-threatening—from across the city.
Despite its disturbingly Christian iconography, we like PAX East, the massive video game that we visited twice. But in every bushel of apples, you'll find a few bad ones, and that goes double when that bushel is made up of nerds instead of apples. Being a good nerd means being friendly and contented with your socially outcast lot. Being a bad nerd means stealing video game code.
-- Boston Police, with the help of the FBI and the Staties, arrested a man they called the "drug kingpin" of East Boston. Ferney Pereanez, 24, faces charges that he masterminded a massive cocaine distribution network that brought the drug from Colombia into Boston and then distributed it across the state. He and 7 of his alleged confederates were arrested today on a number of related charges. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney, the arrests were "the result of a wiretap operation so extensive that it required federal funding and at least three Spanish-speaking translators at any given time." [Suffolk County D.A.]
-- Boston police investigated a murder in Roslindale this weekend. The killing happened on Stillman Road, and cops found wrapped packages of "white rocklike substance" at the murder scene. [West Roxbury Transcript]
-- Sean Shanahan, a TSA employee whose responsibilities include patting down airline passengers, was arrested yesterday on multiple charges of sex crimes against a minor, including statutory rape. The 44-year-old Winthrop man is sure to become the poster boy for privacy advocates who oppose the TSA's full-body scanners. The alleged victim, a 14-year-old girl, was reportedly a friend of Shanahan's daughter who would spend the night at their house, giving Shanahan the opportunity for the alleged rapes. [Herald]
-- Nicole Chuminski, 27, was convicted of killing her lover's two children when she set fire to their house. Chuminski killed Acia and Sophia Johnson, ages 14 and 13, had "a rocky relationship" with the girls' mother, Anna Reisopoulos, and set the fatal fire as an act of out-of-control vengeance after a lovers' spat. [Herald]
-- Boston police arrested the man that they say forced his hands down the pants of a 19-year-old woman in Jamaica Plain during the morning of February 4th. The suspect allegedly attacked the woman at the corner of Seaverns Ave. and Centre St.—near City Feed and Supply—before running to the Green Street T station, where authorities caught him on camera. Raphael Cox was arraigned this morning and held on $5,000 bail. [Suffolk County DA]
-- President Barack Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyango will appear in U.S. Immigration Court tomorrow in Boston to appeal an earlier ruling that denied her political asylum. Onyango, a native of Kenya, will also be asked to bring Obama's birth certificate to the hearing. That last part is a joke. [Globe]
-- A criminal defense attorney who was arrested while videotaping three Boston cops in 2007 while they were making an arrest has filed a lawsuit against the City of Boston for civil rights infringements. The videotaping case against Simon Glick was dismissed before trial. [Boston.com]
-- John M. Forbes, Thomas Menino's 31-year-old liaison to East Boston, was arrested this morning on charges that he was dealing dope in his neighborhood. The U.S. Attorney arrested Forbes for possession with intent to distribute marijuana and Oxycontin, and the bust was the result of a federal investigation that began in July. [Globe]
-- A massive brawl allegedly erupted when a group called New England Executives rented Mantra Restaurant for a private party last month. The fracas, which was described as "alcohol fueled," allegedly turned executives into street fighting men when two bigwigs and their entourages faced off in the wee hours of the morning. Five were arrested on various charges including disorderly conduct and assault on a police officer. [UHub]
-- A Milton firefighter who was going home after his mother's birthday party was shot in the gut yesterday morning after he reportedly confronted an aggressive driver. The victim was reported in critical condition at Boston Medical Center, and the shooter, who may have been driving a silver Porsche, has not been captured. [Herald]
-- Boston cops have arrested a suspect in the August 25 killing of Erica Field in Dorchester. Amos "Ace" Don, a 23-year-old Boston man who was being held in custody in Maine on unrelated charges, now stands accused of killing Field and for shooting a second victim, who survived the assault. [BPDNews]