The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday upheld Charles Williams's second-degree murder conviction for the death of Dennis Parham, shot in the head on Shawmut Avenue at Kendall Street in Roxbury's Lenox housing development the night of July 15, 2017. Read more.
Boston Police report officers arrested a local man on armed-robbery charges for the way he tried and failed to hold somebody up at knifepoint at Massachusetts and Shawmut avenues around 5 p.m. on Friday. Read more.
Somebody began firing a gun shortly after 10:05 p.m. on Shawmut Avenue at Lenox Street. Nobody hit.
Update: Board decides neither incident was foreseeable so no violation for either bar.
The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday what to do about incidents at bars in the South End and East Boston in which patrons apparently looking for trouble found it. Read more.
A man was shot in the leg in the area of 616 Shawmut Ave., next to Ramsay Park around 9:25 p.m.
A spent shell was found half a block away on Trotter Court.
Boston Police report arresting a former Dorchester man now living in Brockton on charges he gunned down Hanser Abraham Moreta-Gonzalez, 26, on Shawmut Avenue across from Ramsay Park last September. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old from Dorchester in East Boston yesterday on charges he used a gun to murder Hanser Abraham Moreta-Gonzalez, 26, on Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury on Sept. 29. Read more.
Rendering by Elkus Manfredi.
The Druker Co. has filed plans with the BPDA to replace a vacant warehouse and a parking lot with a two-building, 588,000-square-foot life-sciences complex at 1033 Washington St. in the South End. Read more.
Shawmut crime scene. Photo by Live Boston.
Victim identified as Hanser Abraham Moreta-Gonzalez, 26.
Boston Police report a man was shot outside 625 Shawmut Ave. around 6:05 p.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Victim identified as Gerie Acevedo, 24, of the South End.
Boston Police report a man was fatally stabbed at Shawmut Avenue and West Newton Street around 8:45 p.m. on Friday.
Michael Ratty caught the setting up at the Buttery on Shawmut Avenue this morning for filming a scene in George Clooney's movie about a kid who loses his father and bonds with the guy's at his uncle's Long Island bar before heading off to Harvard, um, Yale.
Boston Police report that Tanjim Siam, 24, who was shot at the M&R convenience store on July 14, died today. Read more.
A Lynn man already behind bars for a violent armed robbery in Brockton now faces charges for a shooting inside a Shawmut Avenue convenience store on July 14 in which the clerk was shot in the head even after handing money from the register, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Firefighters going up and in. Photo by Rob Colonna.
Boston firefighters are at 300 Shawmut Ave., at Waltham Street, for a fire on the fifth floor.
WHDH interviews the owner of the M&R convenience store on Shawmut Avenue, where his employee, a recent immigrant from Bangladesh, who came here in search of an education was shot in the head Tuesday night.
Victim identified as Tanjim Siam. GoFundMe page.
The victim was found unconscious inside a convenience store at 718 Shawmut Ave. at Williams Street around 9:10 p.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of his injuries.
From 311 this morning comes two reports of yellow Stars of David being spraypainted on front doors of residences on Shawmut Avenue between West Newton and West Concord streets.
I don't think there are non-nefarious reasons to spray stars of David...
A car crashed into several other cars on Shawmut Avenue near Lenox Street shortly after 10 p.m. Several people suffered injuries; four cars were damaged enough to require tows. The driver fled on foot.
An alert citizen looks up and files a 311 complaint about the two mistakes on the signs at the intersection of Shawmut Avenue and Williams Street in Roxbury - one a bit more obvious even to people not from immediately around there.
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