Published June 1, 2010

A Brewster man tells the Globe (Herald had it first!) that his son, Fiachra Ó Luain, was among the activists on the “Free Gaza” flotilla seized by Israeli commandos Monday.

Joseph Bangert says he has not talked to his son but that he saw him walking off the boat in a YouTube video — arms, legs and all. Sen. John Kerry’s office said Bangert’s son was “seriously injured” in the raid.

The Globe says a 63-year-old woman from Woods Hole was also listed as being onboard.

These videos were shot, annotated and posted by the Israeli government:

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Published June 1, 2010

Boston police are distributing this flier in their search for people the BPD believes to be involved in gang activity.

Have you seen these men?

• Update: Hubbub Explainer: Gangsters Have Rights, Too

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.