Man on second floor of Mattapan building shoots at firefighters responding to a fire on the first

By adamg on Sat, 12/30/2023 - 2:13pm

Live Boston reports (with photos) a man on the second floor of 50 Fairlawn Ave. shot at firefighters responding to a fire on the first floor around 11:30 a.m.

Firefighters were able to put out the fire, in part by taking care to stay out of view of the second-floor window. After two hours, a BPD SWAT team was able to take the barricaded man into custody.

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We have a serious mental

By anon on Sat, 12/30/2023 - 2:30pm.

We have a serious mental health and drug problem in this country.
I find it very hard to believe this man was acting in clear conscience

I'll bet he set the fire

By Ron Newman on Sat, 12/30/2023 - 2:30pm.

Why else would he be shooting at the firefighters?

How could you possibly know

By anon on Sat, 12/30/2023 - 8:39pm.

How could you possibly know this?

he might not have needed a reason

By scollaysq on Sat, 12/30/2023 - 10:26pm.

I am a former emergency dispatcher and sometimes people do crazy things when their house is burning down or paramedics are trying to treat people etc.

Boston Police have proved over and over and over that they can handle these situations without killing someone. Lethal force is absolutely a last resort for them. In other cities, this would have ended fatally for the suspect.

And all I see over and over and over is your commentators being all ACAB-y.

Are they perfect? Hell no. Could they improve? Who couldn’t? But the people on this site just outright refuse to give credit where credit’s due.

Thanks BPD. Another job well done. There are people out there who see it, recognize it and appreciate it.

I mean, people have commented on that here in the past

By Tim Mc. on Sat, 12/30/2023 - 6:05pm.

so it's not like you're a lone voice out there commenting on this. I think I've been one of them, too?

But also it feels like you're saying we should comment every time BPD *doesn't* kill someone, which... eesh.

Yup, in the stretch after Ferguson it was notable

By tachometer on Sun, 12/31/2023 - 10:31am.

After Ferguson over the next six months or so there were about a half-dozen incidents where someone pulled a gun on BPD, in at least one of those cases also firing it, where they were able to take them into custody without using lethal force.

It happens regularly here, but with the national media attention after that incident I thought it really stood out.