Crime

Three people were killed Thursday after a chaotic shooting scene that had crowds running for cover in a crime-ridden section of Louisville. Two men — Tyson Mimms, 24 and Craig Bland Jr., 22 — were killed Thursday afternoon in a shooting that attracted dozens of onlookers anxious for answers in the city's Russell neighborhood, which is dotted with boarded-up houses. As police investigated and a host of media gathered nearby, shots rang out about four houses down. Makeba Lee, 24, was killed after she was shot by a woman who had gotten into an argument with her about the incident,...

Q. Many years ago, I got a call informing me that my son was arrested and being held on $1 million bail. That was when I first learned that he is a pedophile. He has just completed his 20-year prison sentence, and during that time I learned a great deal about this insidious disease. Everyone hates a pedophile, and they're unable to separate the person from the crime. As with any crime, when the person who committed the crime is a family member, you still love him or her. Like alcoholism, no one chooses to be a pedophile.

East Boston's Maverick Square is undergoing a construction boom that's revitalizing a neighborhood known only a few years as ago as having its share of urban problems. Two years after the Maverick MBTA station underwent a $56 million renovation, the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center is now undertaking a $24 million building project on what used to be an ugly vacant lot in the heart of the square. A new, $9.4 million Greenway Apartments complex, with 27 affordable rental units, is going up at 170-172 Maverick Square.

A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, after an overnight commercial airline flight from Las Vegas accompanied by federal agents, Bosnian authorities and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said.

When you think “crime family,’’ you probably envision bad guys playing cards, chewing toothpicks, and carrying a few extra rolls of fat. But I’m here to write about — and sing the praises of — FX’s “Justified,’’ a winning crime drama that brings its own unique spirit to everything it touches. On “Justified,’’ which is set in backwoods Kentucky and based on characters created by executive producer Elmore Leonard, the crime families are far skeevier — a lot more “Deliverance’’ than “The Sopranos.’’ In the season 2 premiere, tonight at 10, the...

Mayor Gary Christenson will hold a public safety awareness meeting in Ward 2 Monday at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of Emerson School, 238 Highland Ave. Malden Police Lieutenant Kevin Molis will join Christenson and Ward Two Councilor Steve Ultrino for an update on crime and to discuss ideas to keep neighborhoods safe. "We've seen an increase in home breaks and car breaks, like most areas of the city," said Ultrino, who is serving his first term as councilor. "For those people who've been affected, crime is obviously an issue.

IT WAS a despicable crime, and ended a life full of promise. A young woman, 27, was raped and killed in 1999 by a violent criminal who had picked her up on the side of the road after her car broke down.The perpetrator deserved to be caught, tried, and punished severely. But the murder of Melissa Gosule - horrible as it was - does not justify the "three strikes and you're out" bill that state lawmakers are considering. "Melissa's bill," as it is called, is supposedly aimed at keeping the most dangerous repeat offenders behind bars, without the possibility of parole.

Some crimes seem too enormous for one tale to tell - they demand the slow, horrible disclosure of weekly tabloid installments or a television miniseries. Or a single extended endurance test. The three “Red Riding’’ films, themselves winnowed down for British TV down from four interrelated crime novels by David Peace, unspool one after the other at the Kendall starting this week. That’s 300 minutes of tawdry secrets vomited into the cold Yorkshire air, covering a decade of fictional mayhem, murder, and almost Shakespearean corruption.

Some of the sets on TNT's "Wanted" could double as backdrops for a Details magazine fashion spread. With their industrial-warehouse grit and carefully messy graffiti, they'd bring a slick ambiance to the latest in torn-jeans non-couture couture. They scream CK urban jungle. But style alone does not a good cop show make. "Wanted," which premieres tomorrow night at 10, is an LA-based drama that relies too heavily on finesse, and not enough on the nuts and bolts of crime plotting.

The Argentine film "The Aura" is a heist movie, and one of the items stolen is a man's identity. The film also represents a larger theft: It's the second and final work from writer-director Fabian Bielinsky, who scored with 2000's con-man drama "Nine Queens" and who died at 47 of a heart attack in June as his new film was earning raves at the Los Angeles Film Festival. We've been robbed. "The Aura" is richer and less showy than "Nine Queens," and it lifts off from the gangster genre to contemplate deeper mysteries.

The Syrian regime and an increasingly organized rebel force are carrying out illegal killings and torturing their opponents, but government forces are still responsible for most of the violence stemming from the country's uprising, a U.N. panel said Thursday. The findings were released in Geneva by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, which said the conflict has become "increasingly militarized. " The report was based on hundreds of interviews since March with victims and witnesses who fled the country.

Some might say that Dharun Ravi, the 20-year-old defendant from Rutgers University, got off easy this week. Ravi faced 10 years in prison after being convicted of 15 counts — including invasion of privacy, intimidation, and anti-gay bias — related to the suicide death of his roommate, Tyler Clementi. But on Monday, a New Jersey judge wisely sentenced Ravi to 30 days in prison, along with probation, counseling, and 300 hours of community service. It seems unlikely that Ravi will now be deported to India, where he hasn't lived...

A reporter who led crime coverage for a Trinidad & Tobago newspaper and a TV news cameraman are being accused of robbing a liquor store and getting in a shootout with police. Authorities say Trinidad Express reporter Akile Simon and TV6 cameraman Brendon Alexander teamed up with a security guard and a taxi driver to commit the robbery in a town outside Port-of-Spain. Police allege the four initially posed as police, showing the shop owner a phony warrant. The gang is accused of engaging officers in a shootout shortly after robbing the store of $28,000 and nine bottles of...

Members of the board of trustees at Roxbury Community College said at their public meeting Tuesday that school funding could be in jeopardy if embattled college president Terrence A. Gomes remains in the post he has held since 2003. However, the trustees took no action on Gomes's employment status and adjourned their meeting at about 10 p.m., after going into a closed executive session to discuss possible litigation against the school. They did not provide details of the potential legal action.

Seven Irish republicans, including three relatives of a senior reputed Real IRA member, have been arraigned on terror charges following a security sweep against militants trying to sabotage Northern Ireland's peace process. Three were charged with "directing terror," a crime never before levied against a suspected Irish Republican Army member in Northern Ireland. Use of the charge suggests that police and Britain's domestic spy agency, MI5, believe they have caught commanders of the Real IRA faction and intend to present evidence from surveillance, a key to such cases.

Former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's genocide trial at the U.N. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal was suspended Thursday after prosecutors mistakenly failed to turn over evidence to his defense lawyers. It was far from the first time an international trial has faced delays. Here are some other examples. —Slobodan Milosevic: The trial of the former Yugoslav President on charges of masterminding Serb atrocities throughout the wars that tore apart the Balkans in the 1990s dragged on for four years and was eventually aborted without verdicts when he died of a heart attack in his...

SIMON WAXMAN ("Poverty's boiling point," Op-ed, Aug. 16) argues that the rioting in Britain is due to poverty. As he states it: "The bottom isn't in flames because it lacks morals. It is crying out because of persistent poverty. " Five years ago Janet Daley, writing in the Daily Telegraph, made this observation: "Of course, we must deal, as a society, with the problems that can lead people into crime; but that does not have to entail being excessively, irresponsibly lenient with those who have been led. What follows from this is a disastrous fatalism: We must resign ourselves to...

Argentina: Thousands of people in Buenos Aires protested rampant crime Oct. 31 by banging pots and pans on street corners, and hundreds gathered at the presidential compound. Carjackings, kidnappings, and daylight robberies have soared in the suburbs surrounding the capital, prompting the governor of Buenos Aires province to order 3,300 more police into the streets to counter crime that one outside observer described as getting out of hand. Most crime that affects tourists is pickpocketing or purse snatching, but aggravated assaults have occurred.

Convicted war criminal and former Liberian President Charles Taylor told judges at his sentencing hearing Wednesday that he sympathizes with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and judges should render their sentence against him in a spirit of "reconciliation, not retribution. " However, he stopped short of admitting any wrongdoing, apologizing for his actions, or expressing remorse. In a landmark ruling in April, judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone found Taylor guilty of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape,...

Mayor Thomas M. Menino is expected to outline a preemptive push to stanch summertime violence Wednesday, seeking to stop crime now with the hope of preventing retaliation in July and August. The effort, which has been the subject of City Hall meetings for the past two months, will incorporate police, public health officials, the School Department, and youth workers. It will include police detectives walking beats in high-crime areas, an initiative to provide summer jobs for young adults over 19, and coordination with prison officials to visit inmates slated for...