A Somerville man who likes to hang out in Egleston Square was ordered held without bail as a danger to the community this week following his arrest on charges he stabbed a senior citizen on a bus in Egleston Square on Sept. 11 - while he was on personal-recognizance release awaiting trial on charges he stabbed somebody three blocks from there last year - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 12-year-old on charges he threatened somebody with a knife at Washington Street and Chilcott Place on the Jamaica Plain side of Egleston Square around 6:30 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
At least three cars were hit in a barrage of gunfire shortly before 10 p.m. on Abbotsford Street, off Walnut Avenue in Roxbury. More than a dozen shell casings recovered.
Shortly after 10 p.m. on Atherton Street where it meets Washington Street and Columbus Avenue. He ran across Washington and into the Egleston House of Pizza, where arriving first responders found him. Read more.
Rendering by KDI.
A developer has filed plans with the BPDA to replace a "dilapidated house " and some vacant land at 24-34 Notre St. in Roxbury with a five-story, 26-unit condo building. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Demone Coleman, 44, of Dorchester, on charges he gunned down Christopher Shivers, 43, on Columbus Avenue in Egleston Square late on Feb. 8. Read more.
Renderings of proposed building by Bond Worthington.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved replacing an industrial building at 27 Dixwell St., across from the Hernandez School in Egleston Square with a 12-unit residential building with 12 parking spaces. Read more.
Jamaica Plain News reports Boston officials are negotiating the purchase of the Washington Street lparcel that was long an informal park until Clear Channel put a fence around it to protect its all important billboard. Community groups had cared for the land for more than 20 years, turning it into a peace garden and taking care of things property owners would normally have to do, such as snow and trash removal.
Evidence markers at the scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Victim identified as Rasante Osorio, 14, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report that two teens were shot in the rear of 2990 Washington St., near Cobden Street, around 12:15 p.m. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Rosba Taylor, 30, of Lynn, on charges he shot one of two men outside 1907 Columbus Ave., around 12:30 p.m. on April 15. Read more.
Crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Victim identified as Junior Pimentel De La Cruz, 27, of Dorchester.
Boston Police report two men were shot at 66 Walnut Park in Roxbury shortly before 11 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Boston Police report a Vermont crack dealer with a violent past in Roxbury will be arraigned today on charges he fatally shot Arthur Rashaad Miles on Washington Street in Egleston Square on Sept. 8. Read more.
Egleston Square residents had long made lemonade out of the ugly lemon of a billboard and its supports in the middle of Egleston Square by turning it into a mini-park with benches and a small free library. But Clear Channel, which blocked off the site with a fence a couple months ago has now put the small site up for sale, for $1.1 million, Jamaica Plain News reports.
Rasheem Christian got a mandatory sentence of life without parole yesterday following his conviction for first-degree murder for the 2013 death of Brianna Bigby, gunned down as she sat in a car in Egleston Square, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The T officially began service today on dedicated bus lanes that run down the center of Columbus Avenue between Egleston and Jackson Squares. The goal is to speed service on the routes that use Columbus - the 22, 29 and 44. The T is now looking at extending the dedicated lanes to Ruggles.
Floor plans of a couple of rounded apartments in the building.
The Boston Housing Authority has filed plans for extensive renovations to Egleston Square's Doris Bunte Apartments, which used to be called Walnut Park Apartments, using a combination of new federal funding and tax credits for historic properties, which the city's tallest round apartment building now is.
Around 9:10 p.m., police found two attack victims in Egleston Square - a man who was stabbed on Westminster Avenue, near Waldren Road on the Roxbury side, and a man who was hit with a baseball bat and sliced with a knife on Washington Street on the Jamaica Plain side.
At Beethoven and Washington streets shortly after 10:30 p.m. A knife was recovered on Beethoven Street.
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