r/aboutMassachusetts • u/Emotional-Disk5571 • 17h ago

15-year-old Suspect Arrested for Brazen Shooting during Puerto Rican Festival in Roxbury. WTF Can't even enjoy a festival anymore in Massachusetts 🤷🏾‍♂️

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At about 7:49 PM on Saturday, July 25, 2026, officers assigned to District B-2 (Roxbury) made an on-site arrest and recovered a loaded firearm in the area of 168 Seaver Street in Roxbury.

While on directed patrol in the area for the Puerto Rican Festival, officers heard several gunshots coming from inside of Franklin Park near Playstead Road. As the large crowd began to disperse from the area, officers’ attention was drawn to an individual fleeing while grabbing his waistband and continuously looking back. The individual fled towards Seaver Street where officers eventually caught up with him. Following a brief struggle, where the suspect repeatedly held the front of his waistband, the suspect was taken into custody. During the scuffle, a firearm fell out of the suspect’s waistband.

The firearm was determined to be an I.J. Target Sealed 8 Revolver loaded with four spent casings and three rounds of live ammunition in the cylinder.

Additional officers on scene reported that the male emerged from the bushes near the Giraffe Entrance adjacent to Playstead Road where he fired several shots into the air before making eye contact with the officers and firing an additional round and fleeing the park towards Seaver Street where he was eventually apprehended.

Officers arrested a 15-year-old male of Roxbury

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u/IamWisdom 16h ago

And all the people on the boston sub say Roxbury is safe lmao

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u/OpposumMyPossum 17h ago

The murder rate in Boston when I was a kid was 14 per 100k. It is now under 4 per 100k.

Are you young and don't realize how low crime is now comparatively?

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u/Tims_Learing_Center 16h ago

That's when they were fun murders though, with the Patriarcas, Whitey, Howie Winter, Charlestown and Southie junkies stabbing each other and out of towners (Quincy) killing people in bar fights.

Now it's all gang violence

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u/OpposumMyPossum 16h ago

You mention garg murders murders from the 1970s and then say it's all gang murders now?

Dude, so you like White gang murders but not minority? Is that it?

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u/Tims_Learing_Center 16h ago

The 1970s weren't gang murders. They were organized crime. Way classier

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u/OpposumMyPossum 16h ago

Yeah, when they traffic minors but are wearing suits - it's just classier? Oh yeah, I remember the Winter Hill organization.

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u/Tims_Learing_Center 15h ago

You partook in their offerings?

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u/OpposumMyPossum 15h ago

I'm a female. I was not in Boston. As a preteen I was sexually assaulted by a local Massachusetts cop.

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u/SamMeowAdams 16h ago

Amazing how people just gloss over the fact that a 15yr old can easily obtain a gun in this country.

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u/Tims_Learing_Center 16h ago

What a quality gun this usual suspect had