The Suffolk County DA has just reported that James A. Walker, the alleged Dorchester gang banger known as "Gunna," was arrested today on charges that he murdered a man during a gang beef in 2006. Walker, whom prosecutors suspect of leading the notorious Lucerne Street Doggz street gang, was doing time for a 2007 drug bust when he was arrested this afternoon. He had violated his probation in January when he was caught with a gun in his car.
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--Don't mess with the elderly in this city. They are not easy targets. A guy found that out when he tried to steal an old woman's purse at the Downtown Crossing T stop. On Wednesday night, Christopher Linehan, 29, of Dorchester, tried to snatch the purse of the unidentified 79-year-old woman. Neither party would let go of the purse, so Linehan tried dragging the woman to one of the black turnstiles. Good Samaritans started blocking...
More news has emerged about the large group of gang members who were rounded up yesterday following the shooting of a BPD officer. Shooter Antonio Franklin belonged to the Castlegate gang, not the Lucerne Street Doggz, but the mass arrest might send a message to gang members in general.
--A Boston police officer got hit during a shoot-out with alleged gang members in Dorchester last night. Stephen Romano, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was hit in the chest but will survive. The shooting started when police interfaced with Antonio Franklin and Durrell Curry. Franklin shot Romano, and then a state trooper on the scene returned fire and hit Franklin, leaving him in critical condition, but Curry escaped. The Herald had a disturbing detail....

