A man was killed early on Sunday morning (May 11) when he was ejected from a car during a crash on Walk Hill Street in Mattapan. The report of a “motor vehicle accident” came into B-3 at 12:28 a.m. The victim, whose name has not yet been made public, was pronounced dead at a local hospital. A BPD report noted that two other vehicles parked on the street sustained damage.
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Two shooting incidents — including one in which a person “self-applied” to a local hospital after a report of shots fired on Page Street near Franklin Park— took place on the Area B-3 police district on Sunday. The first report for a “shot spotter” activation came in at 1:12 p.m. on Landor Road. There were no injuries reported, but four vehicles were damaged by the gunfire. A BPD report indicated that 24 shell casings from two different caliber guns were found on the street.
In the shooting on Page Street at 11:54 p.m., responding officers found shell casings and observed “five vehicles had ballistic damage” and blood evidence. While at the scene, officers were told of a “walk-in” gunshot victim at Boston Medical Center” who had refused to speak to a police officer. The man who owned a vehicle that transported him to BMC was later held on “multiple open warrants,” police said.
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Last Wednesday evening, (May 7), Boston Police arrested a 17-year-old who they said was walking on Woodmere Street, off Morton Street in Mattapan, with a gun loaded with a passel of bullets. Police say officers on patrol shortly after 8 p.m. spotted the teen with three other youths and suspected he was carrying a weapon because he was “walking with his right arm pinned to his body, and began to manipulate an unknown object in his waistband area.” A frisk search found the teenager was packing a “a Keltec PMR 30 with one round in the chamber and twenty-nine rounds of ammunition inserted into the magazine” in his waistband.
The teen, too young to have his name released, faces multiple firearms charges.
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A 15-year-old boy was arrested last Wednesday (May 7) after police say they were called to the Loop at Mattapan Station building on River Street at 12:50 a.m. for a report of two masked people “pulling on apartment doors.” Responding officers say they saw the pair exiting the building by a rear door and caught one of them as he tried— and failed— to scale a fence.
The teen was said to have been carrying a fully loaded Smith & Wesson SD9 VE, equipped with a laser sight. He faces firearms charges as a delinquent.
