Four Juveniles Involved in Possible Donation ScamLast evening at 6:15pm, officers from District 2 responded to a radio call at Blue Hill Avenue and Washington Street for a group of juveniles soliciting vehicles in traffic. When the officers questioned the four juveniles, they stated they were accepting donations for the Boston Medical Center’s Children’s Aid Program. However, the juveniles, as well as the adult they were working with, were unable to confirm direct affiliation with the program. The officers from District 2 continue to investigate this incident.
MBTA Passenger Threatens Bus Driver
Officers responded to Hyde Park Avenue and Arlington Street last night at approximately 8:05pm for a man who had pulled a gun on an MBTA bus driver. The bus driver had heard two passengers using obscene language and stopped the bus to make them get off. One of the passengers approached the driver, making a gun in his waistband visible and threatening him. The suspect, Ramon Miranda, 21, of Roxbury, and another passenger then exited the bus and fled down the street. Officers in the area saw two Hispanic men walking in the vicinity that matched the description that the MBTA bus driver provided, and stopped them to conduct a threshold inquiry. Neither suspect possessed a weapon. When they were taken back to the scene, the bus driver properly identified Miranda and he was arrested on charges of Assault by Means of a Dangerous Weapon and Possession of a Firearm Without a Permit.
Somerville Man Stabbed in Charlestown
Last night at 8:35pm, a 34-year-old Somerville man walked into a pizza place on Bunker Hill Street and told employees to call 911 because he had been stabbed. When officers arrived at the scene, the victim was being treated by EMS before he was transported to a local hospital. The officers went to the scene of the crime, an apartment building a block away from the pizza place, but found no evidence of a suspect.
Hyde Park Man Arrested on Gun Charges
Members of the Youth Violence Strike Force were on patrol last night at Blue Hill Avenue and Columbia Road when they noticed a male walking alone. When he noticed the police cruiser, his demeanor became nervous as he kept looking over his shoulder at them. The officers exited their vehicle and the suspect fled. As he was running, he dropped his jacket. He was eventually apprehended and his jacket was recovered, which contained a silver firearm. Kurtis Jakes, a 19-year-old from Hyde Park was then arrested and charged with Resisting Arrest, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition and Probation/Parole Violation.
Can you tell me what is happening with this murder…nothing seems to be said about it but this one article? I have heard that there was a similar murder in Bay Village????Thanks.Family, friends stunned by death
Police believe man was slain
By Cristina Silva and Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | April 9, 2006
On Thursday evening, David Hall called several close friends from a downtown Boston bar and invited them out. He was going to New York the next day and was in a celebratory mood, friends said yesterday.
Just after noon the next day, a body was discovered in the South End condominium where Hall lived. The death is being investigated as a homicide, police said.
The building management company sent out a notice that Hall had died, but police have yet to identify the body.
Hall’s mother, Donna, who lives in Spokane, Wash., said that when she called police to ask about her son, they told her the body in the apartment was too mutilated to easily identify.
”I can’t believe it,” she said. ”They said they can’t identify the body. They need dental records.”
Police found the body in Hall’s condominium at Dover Lofts on East Berkeley Street at about 12:40 p.m. Friday, after Hall’s real estate broker let them into his apartment. Officials would not comment on the cause of death or the condition of the body.
Friends and building management officials said that the broker, Barbara Cowley, confirmed Hall’s identity. Cowley did not return calls for comment.
Yesterday, several Boston police vehicles remained parked on the street outside Dover Lofts, including two marked ”Identification Unit.”
A 38-year-old man named John, who identified himself as Hall’s friend but declined to give his last name, said that he alerted police after Hall didn’t return his calls before their trip to New York.
Hall’s friend, Richard Miller, said he is anguished over his last conversation with Hall.
”He was alone and wanted me to join him,” said Miller, a salesman at Alpha Omega Jewelers in Harvard Square, where Hall was a manager. ”He was joking and happy about going to New York for the weekend.”
Radwan Kheireddine, senior manager of Alpha Omega, described Hall as ”big, tall, but very . . . soft-spoken.”
Hall’s colleagues are assuming the worst.
”We didn’t want to believe it,” Kheireddine said. ”He is a person who we will always miss.”
A native of the Seattle area, Hall relocated to Boston about 25 years ago, following in the footsteps of a female friend, John said.
”David loved Boston,” he said. ”He really embraced the city.”
Hall was a regular at Spire, an upscale restaurant in Nine Zero Hotel on Tremont Street, Miller said.
It was from Spire that Hall called him at about 8:20 p.m., Miller said.
”He said he was eating and drinking,” said Miller, adding that he was unable to join his friend.
Hall also called John that night, but John said he didn’t answer the phone.
William Kasper, manager of the building where Hall lived, said there were no signs of forced entry.
April Bianchi, a bartender at Spire, said Hall was a close friend of hers and other employees there, and stopped for dinner or drinks a couple of times a week. She said the staff was shocked by news that he may have been killed. ”He was carefree and easy-going and had a very good sense of humor,” she recalled.
Cristina Silva can be reached at csilva@globe.com.
Can you tell me what is happening with this murder…nothing seems to be said about it but this one article? I have heard that there was a similar murder in Bay Village????Thanks.Family, friends stunned by death
Police believe man was slain
By Cristina Silva and Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | April 9, 2006
On Thursday evening, David Hall called several close friends from a downtown Boston bar and invited them out. He was going to New York the next day and was in a celebratory mood, friends said yesterday.
Just after noon the next day, a body was discovered in the South End condominium where Hall lived. The death is being investigated as a homicide, police said.
The building management company sent out a notice that Hall had died, but police have yet to identify the body.
Hall’s mother, Donna, who lives in Spokane, Wash., said that when she called police to ask about her son, they told her the body in the apartment was too mutilated to easily identify.
”I can’t believe it,” she said. ”They said they can’t identify the body. They need dental records.”
Police found the body in Hall’s condominium at Dover Lofts on East Berkeley Street at about 12:40 p.m. Friday, after Hall’s real estate broker let them into his apartment. Officials would not comment on the cause of death or the condition of the body.
Friends and building management officials said that the broker, Barbara Cowley, confirmed Hall’s identity. Cowley did not return calls for comment.
Yesterday, several Boston police vehicles remained parked on the street outside Dover Lofts, including two marked ”Identification Unit.”
A 38-year-old man named John, who identified himself as Hall’s friend but declined to give his last name, said that he alerted police after Hall didn’t return his calls before their trip to New York.
Hall’s friend, Richard Miller, said he is anguished over his last conversation with Hall.
”He was alone and wanted me to join him,” said Miller, a salesman at Alpha Omega Jewelers in Harvard Square, where Hall was a manager. ”He was joking and happy about going to New York for the weekend.”
Radwan Kheireddine, senior manager of Alpha Omega, described Hall as ”big, tall, but very . . . soft-spoken.”
Hall’s colleagues are assuming the worst.
”We didn’t want to believe it,” Kheireddine said. ”He is a person who we will always miss.”
A native of the Seattle area, Hall relocated to Boston about 25 years ago, following in the footsteps of a female friend, John said.
”David loved Boston,” he said. ”He really embraced the city.”
Hall was a regular at Spire, an upscale restaurant in Nine Zero Hotel on Tremont Street, Miller said.
It was from Spire that Hall called him at about 8:20 p.m., Miller said.
”He said he was eating and drinking,” said Miller, adding that he was unable to join his friend.
Hall also called John that night, but John said he didn’t answer the phone.
William Kasper, manager of the building where Hall lived, said there were no signs of forced entry.
April Bianchi, a bartender at Spire, said Hall was a close friend of hers and other employees there, and stopped for dinner or drinks a couple of times a week. She said the staff was shocked by news that he may have been killed. ”He was carefree and easy-going and had a very good sense of humor,” she recalled.
Cristina Silva can be reached at csilva@globe.com.
Can you tell me what is happening with this murder…nothing seems to be said about it but this one article? I have heard that there was a similar murder in Bay Village????Thanks.Family, friends stunned by death
Police believe man was slain
By Cristina Silva and Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | April 9, 2006
On Thursday evening, David Hall called several close friends from a downtown Boston bar and invited them out. He was going to New York the next day and was in a celebratory mood, friends said yesterday.
Just after noon the next day, a body was discovered in the South End condominium where Hall lived. The death is being investigated as a homicide, police said.
The building management company sent out a notice that Hall had died, but police have yet to identify the body.
Hall’s mother, Donna, who lives in Spokane, Wash., said that when she called police to ask about her son, they told her the body in the apartment was too mutilated to easily identify.
”I can’t believe it,” she said. ”They said they can’t identify the body. They need dental records.”
Police found the body in Hall’s condominium at Dover Lofts on East Berkeley Street at about 12:40 p.m. Friday, after Hall’s real estate broker let them into his apartment. Officials would not comment on the cause of death or the condition of the body.
Friends and building management officials said that the broker, Barbara Cowley, confirmed Hall’s identity. Cowley did not return calls for comment.
Yesterday, several Boston police vehicles remained parked on the street outside Dover Lofts, including two marked ”Identification Unit.”
A 38-year-old man named John, who identified himself as Hall’s friend but declined to give his last name, said that he alerted police after Hall didn’t return his calls before their trip to New York.
Hall’s friend, Richard Miller, said he is anguished over his last conversation with Hall.
”He was alone and wanted me to join him,” said Miller, a salesman at Alpha Omega Jewelers in Harvard Square, where Hall was a manager. ”He was joking and happy about going to New York for the weekend.”
Radwan Kheireddine, senior manager of Alpha Omega, described Hall as ”big, tall, but very . . . soft-spoken.”
Hall’s colleagues are assuming the worst.
”We didn’t want to believe it,” Kheireddine said. ”He is a person who we will always miss.”
A native of the Seattle area, Hall relocated to Boston about 25 years ago, following in the footsteps of a female friend, John said.
”David loved Boston,” he said. ”He really embraced the city.”
Hall was a regular at Spire, an upscale restaurant in Nine Zero Hotel on Tremont Street, Miller said.
It was from Spire that Hall called him at about 8:20 p.m., Miller said.
”He said he was eating and drinking,” said Miller, adding that he was unable to join his friend.
Hall also called John that night, but John said he didn’t answer the phone.
William Kasper, manager of the building where Hall lived, said there were no signs of forced entry.
April Bianchi, a bartender at Spire, said Hall was a close friend of hers and other employees there, and stopped for dinner or drinks a couple of times a week. She said the staff was shocked by news that he may have been killed. ”He was carefree and easy-going and had a very good sense of humor,” she recalled.
Cristina Silva can be reached at csilva@globe.com.
Can you tell me what is happening with this murder…nothing seems to be said about it but this one article? I have heard that there was a similar murder in Bay Village????Thanks.Family, friends stunned by death
Police believe man was slain
By Cristina Silva and Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | April 9, 2006
On Thursday evening, David Hall called several close friends from a downtown Boston bar and invited them out. He was going to New York the next day and was in a celebratory mood, friends said yesterday.
Just after noon the next day, a body was discovered in the South End condominium where Hall lived. The death is being investigated as a homicide, police said.
The building management company sent out a notice that Hall had died, but police have yet to identify the body.
Hall’s mother, Donna, who lives in Spokane, Wash., said that when she called police to ask about her son, they told her the body in the apartment was too mutilated to easily identify.
”I can’t believe it,” she said. ”They said they can’t identify the body. They need dental records.”
Police found the body in Hall’s condominium at Dover Lofts on East Berkeley Street at about 12:40 p.m. Friday, after Hall’s real estate broker let them into his apartment. Officials would not comment on the cause of death or the condition of the body.
Friends and building management officials said that the broker, Barbara Cowley, confirmed Hall’s identity. Cowley did not return calls for comment.
Yesterday, several Boston police vehicles remained parked on the street outside Dover Lofts, including two marked ”Identification Unit.”
A 38-year-old man named John, who identified himself as Hall’s friend but declined to give his last name, said that he alerted police after Hall didn’t return his calls before their trip to New York.
Hall’s friend, Richard Miller, said he is anguished over his last conversation with Hall.
”He was alone and wanted me to join him,” said Miller, a salesman at Alpha Omega Jewelers in Harvard Square, where Hall was a manager. ”He was joking and happy about going to New York for the weekend.”
Radwan Kheireddine, senior manager of Alpha Omega, described Hall as ”big, tall, but very . . . soft-spoken.”
Hall’s colleagues are assuming the worst.
”We didn’t want to believe it,” Kheireddine said. ”He is a person who we will always miss.”
A native of the Seattle area, Hall relocated to Boston about 25 years ago, following in the footsteps of a female friend, John said.
”David loved Boston,” he said. ”He really embraced the city.”
Hall was a regular at Spire, an upscale restaurant in Nine Zero Hotel on Tremont Street, Miller said.
It was from Spire that Hall called him at about 8:20 p.m., Miller said.
”He said he was eating and drinking,” said Miller, adding that he was unable to join his friend.
Hall also called John that night, but John said he didn’t answer the phone.
William Kasper, manager of the building where Hall lived, said there were no signs of forced entry.
April Bianchi, a bartender at Spire, said Hall was a close friend of hers and other employees there, and stopped for dinner or drinks a couple of times a week. She said the staff was shocked by news that he may have been killed. ”He was carefree and easy-going and had a very good sense of humor,” she recalled.
Cristina Silva can be reached at csilva@globe.com.