Published June 1, 2010
It sounds like a gruesome scene from “The Wire.” A 14-year-old boy takes a ride on his older brother’s scooter. It’s still daylight on Sunday. A few minutes later, two men snatch him off. One holds the boy down while the other empties a gun into his chest. An undercover officer watches the whole thing.
But this scene really took place, police say, and it happened in Boston, not Baltimore. The boy was Nicholas Fomby-Davis, of Dorchester. On the same day, a teenager was stabbed to death in Mattapan. And a 27-year-old man was shot and killed in Dorchester. Three weeks ago, another 14-year-old boy, Jaewon Martin, was shot while playing basketball.
- The killing has reignited the call to attack street violence as school lets out for the summer, the Globe reports.
- Mayor Thomas M. Menino says it’s time to treat gangbangers like the Taliban, the Herald reports.
- Two suspects are being arraigned on first-degree murder charges this morning, WBUR reports.
- The Dorchester Reporter has a map of where the shooting occurred.
- Universal Hub calls it a “blood-drenched weekend” in the “deadly triangle” along the Hyde Park/Mattapan line.
- In March, WBUR’s David Boeri brought us the story of a muralist’s colorful effort to bring kids together at Boston’s troubled English High School.
- Meanwhile, in Chicago, a school with new leadership is trying to look forward after a spate of teen violence, NPR’s Cheryl Corley reports today.