Results tagged “southbridge”

-- Brookline police say that two men grabbed a Brookline woman in the street this morning, strangled her, threw her into a pickup truck, and raped her. According to police, the pickup truck is a red, two-door Ford that was captured on video by a Brookline surveillance camera. [Brookline Tab]

-- A 23-year old nursing assistant at a Quincy assisted-living center pled not guilty on Friday to seven counts of assault and battery on a person over 60. She allegedly abused four Alzheimer's patients on one eight-hour shift last Saturday. The employee, since fired, is accused of a range of abuses from hitting a 79-year old woman who allegedly hit her to allegedly forcing an 89-year old woman onto a toilet by grabbing her jaw and reportedly telling a co-worker "I should make her eat it." The suspect faces 21 years in prison and $7,000 in fines if convicted. [Herald]

The case of Chelsea Frazier, the Southbridge mom who was shot to death in front of her baby son in the Bronx over the weekend, gets stranger and stranger. At first, it appeared to be a robbery as her fiancee, Carlos Cruz, fought with a man over a gold chain. Then it came out that she had broken up with the fiancee, and he may have wanted revenge, so police arrested him.

Over the weekend, Chelsea Frazier, a young mother from Southbridge, was shot to death in the Bronx. Her fiancee told police that a man tried to steal his gold chain while he, the mother and their baby were in the car. When the story broke out commenters on Gothamist were soon suggesting that the father may have perpetrated the crime.

--A young woman from Southbridge died from a gunshot wound after an alleged robbery attempt in the Bronx, NY. The 18-year-old's fiance was also wounded in the incident. Her young child, who was nearby, was unharmed. [Boston Herald, Gothamist]