Dominoes kibbitzing turns violent in Dorchester; player charged with slicing one opponent's face with a machete, chasing the other around a parking lot with the weapon

By adamg on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 5:43pm

A dispute during a dominoes match over who knows more about the Jamaican capital of Kingston ended with one player going after the other two with a machete in the Franklin Field development in Dorchester on Aug. 25, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Ron Taylor, 66, of Cambridge, was arrested on two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (machete) and one count of mayhem, the DA's office says. At his arraignment in Dorchester Municipal Court last week, his bail was set was set at $2,500 and he was ordered to home confinement with an ankle GPS monitor, except that he could go to work for about four hours each on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays as he awaits disposition of his case.

According to the DA's office:

At about 6:28 p.m. on Friday, August 25, Boston police responded to a call for a person stabbed at 190 Westview Street in Dorchester. There they found a man bleeding from a cut to his face. The man and another victim told police that Taylor got into an argument during a dominoes game, went to a while Lexus, removed a machete from the trunk, sliced the first victim in the face and chased the second victim around a car while swinging the machete. Police noted blood on the sidewalk, street and two nearby cars.

Witnesses told police the argument centered on “who knows Kingston the best.”

Boston Police put out a BOLO and Cambridge Police spotted and stopped Taylor not long after, the DA's office says, adding officers found the machete in a sink in Taylor's apartment.

Innocent, etc.

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Remember when

By Will LaTulippe on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 5:57pm.

The Trump grab 'em by the (expletive) video dropped, and his mea culpa was "I was younger back then?" And that quickly and rightly got thrown right back in his face with a reminder that he was 59 when he said it?

I hope for the sake of peaceful and civilized Bostonians that a solution for this foul degenerate is swift and just. He's too old for knife stunts...and he'll never change for the better. Garden-variety boomer trash.

Boomer trash?

By what what now? on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 6:02pm.

That's not very kindly of you.
Your grandparents are likely boomers. Are you lumping them into the trash category?

Said they were trash, didn't say they were infertile.

By Greene on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 6:27pm.

Plenty of trash has kids and grandkids.

Trash, yes.

By what what now? on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 6:54pm.

Making it a point to say Boomer is my issue.
Trash comes in every age group. No need to point out one as if they're (I'm) more likely than others to be trash.
Boomers, chime in!

“Boomer” is just one of …

By Lee on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 8:15am.

… many ageist terms. The ageists have plenty for for every age group. Seniors and elderly are often the target of resentment.

“Trash” comes from “white trash” which comes from the days when freed slaves came into competition with poor landless whites for jobs. It was a divide and conquer label.

Not so much now. It’s used for wealthy and poor people of any color. But it reinforces the idea of a fixed class system by denigrating anyone who wasn’t born into a family long established in wealth because some people still think that to be low income is shameful.

Will maybe resents any family members not of his generation. He might resent his generation too. Who knows? He’s Will.

My grandparents

By Will LaTulippe on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 8:30pm.

Have all been dead for a minimum of two decades. The last one to pass was born in 1920.

Three out of my 4

By redheadedjen on Thu, 09/07/2023 - 12:04pm.

Three out of my 4 grandparents were born in 1920 and one in 1911.

If a boomer is offended

By Michael on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 8:37am.

Pretend it's decades' worth of evidence of impending climate disasters, and just ignore it!

Right. All boomers, every last one of them …

By Lee on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 9:18am.

… did nothing.

And your existence helps how?

The assignment of blame is hilarious.

By Section 77 on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 7:00pm.

Jamaican dude attacks people with a machete and your coping mechanism reaches for "garden variety boomer". Sure, the oldsters are known for their machete raids.

I mean, he's 66

By Will LaTulippe on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 8:29pm.

I read the stories before I comment on them. It's there in the story.

error was using “garden-variety” not “boomer”

By Jeff F on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 12:32am.

Yes, he’s a boomer. Ftr not my fave generation either, but machete-wielding violence is hardly commonplace or typical for individuals any age-cadre, contrary to what your use of the phrase “garden variety” would indicate.

But I suspect you know that, even mores the pity.

Late Bloomer Baby Boomer here

By Don't Panic on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 12:44am.

At least in the United States the garden variety way for Baby Boomers to settle what seems like an offence to your honor and intelligence was a fist fight. After which the combatants usually became friends. Baby Boomers typically out grew this type of debating style upon graduating high school.

Funny how the Boomers rallied

By John z on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 11:32pm.

Funny how the Boomers rallied for all the things the Millenials and Gen Z people clain to stand for, civil rights, women's rights...yet they get trashed by them.
Why don't you just say you like picking on old people? Lucky for you, ageism is still okay.

What goes around …

By Lee on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 9:19am.

… comes around. If the ageists are so lucky to live that long.

Excellent point

By anon on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 10:17am.

Excellent point. I often wonder why Millenials and Gen Z hate on Boomers when Boomers were at the vanguard of everything Millenials and Gen Z claim to embrace. For heaven's sake, we just had the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. Who do Millenials and Gen Z think participated? Martians?

I gather that it’s the notion ….

By Lee on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 3:36pm.

…. that boomers own all the property and live in mortgage free ease while youth struggles. That and then that boomers all could afford to retire but hold on to their cushy jobs with high salaries just to spite the kids. Meanies, every last one on ‘em.

Don’t even let them get started with saving social security.

The thing about property

By Will LaTulippe on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 11:39pm.

Is that I don't demand much of it. Poop, sleep, and shower, and a bookcase, a TV, a chair, a bed, a desk, and a bunch of CD's. I have no cohabitational family members, and public parks and lakes exist.

A five-story tower could and should exist to house a bunch of people like me for cheap, but since we've been poisoned with the sick idea that shelter should be a profit center, the already-rich get to use the time they don't have to spend working to show up to meetings where they stomp their feet about anything getting built so that, God forbid, maybe people younger and poorer than them have a puncher's chance at just (expletive) living somewhere decent with minimal engagement.

I don't wish overpriced housing on other people. What's everyone else's problem? Why can't people rise to my moral standard on this?

Stupid questions

By anon on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 5:58pm.

where do you buy machetes? Home Depot? Tractor Supply? Are machetes easily concealable?

Yes

By Polybius on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 6:49pm.

I mean, it said he had it in the trunk of his car, plenty of room for a machete in there. And yes, you can get a machete at those places in order to clear brush or whatever. Walmart sells them too if you want an even flimsier one.

Very Yes

By Don't Panic on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 12:46am.

Most hardware stores and garden shops have them as well. No license required.

No license, but can't just be carried around.

By Tim Mc. on Thu, 09/07/2023 - 7:20am.

If I recall correctly, you can own them, but transporting them is a bit dicey. Check the state laws before getting one.

Googling machetes ...

By Friartuck on Tue, 09/05/2023 - 7:29pm.

Yields an astonishing amount of results.

Just be careful now not to ….

By Lee on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 8:19am.

…. become a suspect in a machete murder.

Both of the above...

By lbb on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 9:43am.

...but my favorite source for tools like this is companies that sell forestry products. That's where you can get decent tools that will last a lifetime.

I’ve had that question recently

By Waquiot on Wed, 09/06/2023 - 5:37pm.

I’m trying to clear out some growth in the yard that is beyond weedwacking. I guess I’ll be heading to Home Depot.

That said, the question I had while reading this story was “who, in the end, did know more about Kingston?”

Skip home depot

By lbb on Thu, 09/07/2023 - 9:27am.

Go here.

But you can get the Fiskars products at Home Depot, I think, and they do not suck. That billhook is quite the tool, can attest. If you can't find them at Home Depot, try the nearest Aubuchon or farmers' supply store - they will have a better selection of this sort of tool than Home Depot anyway, and are a better place t spend your money.