Two people were shot on Dudley Street, one at Dudley and Mt. Pleasant Avenue, the other outside 225 Dudley Street, closer to Greenville Street, around 8:40 p.m. Read more.
Boston murders This year's murders (also see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021)
Randolph man was using Mattapan Square apartment to store guns, police say, adding they also found drugs
2/12/25 - 8:40 am
Boston Police report officers with a search warrant arrested a Randolph man in an apartment on Cummins Highway in Mattapan Square, where they also found a loaded rifle, three guns and bags of coke, crack and fentanyl Wednesday morning. Read more.
Three arrested at Jamaica Plain development after gunfire at Mission Hill development
2/9/25 - 12:45 am
Boston Police report arresting three people on gun charges - one for possession of a loaded machine gun - in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain after gunfire in the Annunciation Road development around 12:45 a.m. on Sunday that sent one bullet through a window and a mirror before it lodged in an apartment wall. Read more.
Man in Mattapan apartment under investigation for sex trafficking tries to evade police by jumping out a window, instead slices arm open and is arrested on gun charges, police say
2/6/25 - 9:00 pm
Boston Police report BPD, State Police and FBI investigators looking into a human-trafficking ring at a Mattapan Square apartment arrested six people Thursday - including one man who tried to flee by jumping out a window, and the man whose car he jumped into in a vain escape attempt. Read more.
Woman found dead in apartment on Claybourne Street in Dorchester
2/3/25 - 2:45 pm
The Dorchester Reporter reports Boston homicide detectives are investigating the death of a woman found dead of stab wounds inside 43 Claybourne St. in Dorchester around 2:45 p.m. on Monday.
Man, his dog found dead at a houseboat in Charlestown
2/2/25 - 10:43 pm
Update: Police say Joseph Donohue, 65, was stabbed repeatedly.
Boston Police report they are investigating the suspicious death of a man on a houseboat at the Charlestown Marina off Shipway Place in Charlestown. Read more.
Person shot to death in Mattapan
1/30/25 - 10:31 pm
Boston Police report Leroy S. Ryner, 18, of Roxbury, was fatally shot at at Morton and West Selden streets in Mattapan around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
Man charged with repeatedly stabbing husband of South End woman he was trying to rob; suspect also stabbed, police say
1/29/25 - 5:30 pm
A Malden man who followed a woman to her South End home then tried to rob her at her door stabbed her husband repeatedly, only to get stabbed himself before he fled yesterday afternoon, police say. Read more.
Woman stabbed on Polk Street in Charlestown
1/25/25 - 11:40 pm
A woman was stabbed in an apartment at 25 Polk St. in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development around 11:40 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital with injuries not considered life threatening.
Man shot to death on Ridgewood Street in Dorchester
1/21/25 - 7:23 pm
Victim identified as Kareem DaVeiga-Booth, 20, of Brighton.
A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.
Man shot in the abdomen at Mildred Hailey Apartments
1/21/25 - 9:04 pm
A man was shot in the area of Heath and Walden streets in Jamaica Plain shortly after 9 p.m. A few minutes later, police found the victim at 26 Heath St. - in a Mildred Hailey apartment. Read more.
15-year-old with a loaded gun was being ferried around Mattapan and Dorchester by another teen without a license, police say
1/20/25 - 4:19 pm
Man stabbed in the stomach and leg in the South End, but police found him in Allston
1/19/25 - 4:00 am
Boston Police are investigating a stabbing early this morning in the Castle Square apartment complex on Tremont Street in the South End. Read more.
Driver slams into two pedestrians, killing one, then takes off, on Washington Street in Roxbury
1/18/25 - 8:30 pm
Update: Suspect arrested.
Police are looking for a dark SUV whose driver they say hit two pedestrians on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets, then drove away, around 8:30 p.m. Read more.
Braintree man charged with sex trafficking at South Bay hotel
1/13/25 - 8:18 pm
Boston Police detectives keeping tabs on prostitution at Mass and Cass by browsing online sex-for-hire ads spotted a woman they knew as "a victim of exploitation and violent assaults" arranged a "date" with her trafficker at the Holiday Inn Express on Boston Street and then arrested him when both people drove up Monday night, police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. Read more.
Two stabbed outside Mattapan Square club
1/13/25 - 2:15 am
Two men were found stabbed outside Macumba Latina, 477 River St. in Mattapan Square, around 2: 15 a.m. Because of the severity of one of the victim's injuries, the homicide unit was called in.
Police say they didn't let a sleeping motorist lie; instead they woke him up and arrested him for the loaded gun they say was in his armrest
1/10/25 - 9:37 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man they say was asleep behind the wheel of a car on Warren Street near Whiting Street shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Friday - but not for excessive tiredness. Read more.
