Public Safety
The body of a man in his 50s was found around 1 p.m. on Tuesday at 3 Virginia St., the Boston Police Department reports.
The man, stabbed several times, was pronounced dead at the scene, police say. He is Dorchester's 23rd murder victim this year (map).
Aftermath of the fire. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that erupted around 3 p.m. at 7-9 Boyd St. quickly went to four alarms and displaced nine residents.
Five firefighters were taken to local hospitals for treatment of minor... Read more
Community mourns: The flags of Ireland and County Galway flew outside St. Mark's Church on Dorchester Ave. this morning after the funeral Mass for murder victim Ciaran Conneely. Photo by Pat TarantinoThe murder of a 36- year-old man who was found shot to... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a 22-year-old man died after being shot repeatedly around 11:45 p.m. at Blue Hill Avenue and Babson Street.
Last week’s arrest of a substance-abuse recovery home operator who has been at the center of a recent dispute in Port Norfolk is just the latest bad turn for the so-called “sober home” community in the Commonwealth— and another sign that this budding... Read more
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today found Emmanuel Pina and Sandro Tavares guilty of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of a man with whom they'd had an argument and an innocent cook gunned down by an errant bullet at the now closed Ka-Carlos Bar... Read more
ClarkThe Boston Police Department reports it is looking for Kendrick Clark for the Sept. 22 shooting murder of Shawn Flores on Abbot Street.
Clark, 37, is described as 37, black, 5'5" with black hair, 215 lbs. and a heavy build.
He's on the lam, so police... Read more
Norman Barnes, already charged with kidnapping a 15-year-old Dorchester High School student and forcing her into prostitution at Boston-area motels, now faces charges he used a 16-year-old for the same purposes.
Indictments unsealed today charge Barnes... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports two teens, one 16, one 14, were found shot around 3:20 p.m. on Sunday outside 253 Geneva Ave.
Both were taken to Boston Medical Center. The 16-year-old died not long after; the 14-year-old remains near death, police... Read more
Boston Police report a man was fatally shot around 9:20 p.m. Thursday at 15 Abbot St.
Police identified the victim only as black and 29. He is Dorchester's 20th murder victim this year (Map of murders in Dorchester and Mattapan).
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