Holiday weekend toll: 11 are injured by guns

At least 11 people were hurt in a series of shootings in Boston over the July Fourth weekend, including four men who were wounded in an incident on Bailey Street near Ashmont station that took place shortly after midnight on Monday. Three victims were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. One of those three was later found to have been injured by shards of glass, not a bullet. A fourth man made it to a local hospital on his own, with non-life-threatening injuries.

A male victim was more seriously injured by a shooting that happened on Mattapan’s Elizabeth Street around 2:19 a.m. on Monday. The victim remains in critical condition, according to Boston Police. The night before, a juvenile was taken to a local hospital after he was found wounded on Woodbole Avenue, near the Gallivan housing development around 10:45. His injury was not life-threatening, according to police.

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Two teenagers were arrested at JFK-UMass station last Thursday night (June 30) after they allegedly smashed train windows before assaulting a man with a hammer. MBTA Transit Police were called to the station around 10:45 p.m. for a report of a group of teens on the Ashmont platform vandalizing a Red Line car. The officers encountered a 53-year-old man who told them the same group of teens had attacked him while he was waiting for someone in the station’s pick-up area next to Morrissey Boulevard.

Transit police arrested a 14-year-old male suspect and a 16-year-old female suspect at the scene. They say they plan to issue a summons to a 13-year-old suspect who allegedly spat on the victim.

“Officers will determine further charges for the malicious destruction of the train windows upon video review,” the Transit Police said in a statement.

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Boston Police arrested a 28-year-old Boston man on illegal gun charges during a traffic stop near Claybourne and Bowdoin streets on Sunday night. Police say they found a loaded 9mm handgun in the car and took Davonte Holloway into custody… Officers assigned to the BPD’s Youth Violence Strike Force arrested 31-year-old Michael Goncalves of Randolph on June 29 after a traffic stop led to the discovery of loaded .45 caliber gun in the suspect’s car. Police pulled him over in the area of Dorchester Avenue and Christopher Street in Fields Corner around 6:13 p.m.

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A 13-year-old boy is due in Juvenile Court this week after he was arrested for carrying a loaded gun while driving a vehicle along Columbia Road on July Fourth. According to a police account of the incident, which happened around 11:30 p.m., the firearm was a .380 Ruger loaded with one round in the chamber and five rounds in the magazine.


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