Crime Scene

A violent week in the city of Boston continued Thursday morning when a Boston University graduate student was fatally shot in a part of the Allston section that is usually safe, police and neighbors said. Police said officers found the 24-year-old man, whom authorities did not identify, lying outside on the 100 block of Allston Street at about 2:40 a.m., suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. "It's in an area that is relatively crime free," Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said during an afternoon press conference at police headquarters in...

Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal stabbing in East Boston after a man was found dead just before 7 a.m. Friday outside a Chelsea Street three-decker. Police believe the victim was wounded inside an apartment and staggered into an alley between two houses, where he collapsed. He was found "suffering from multiple traumas" and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Investigators said they were trying to identify the victim and were awaiting autopsy results to determine the cause of death.

Investigators say three young robbers are in jail after returning to a Southern California crime scene to retrieve liquor store surveillance camera video. Los Angeles sheriff's Lt. Tom Bryski says the trio stole beer from Dooley's Liquor Store in the Newhall area of Santa Clarita on Sunday night and fled. They returned to the store about 85 minutes later to get the surveillance video. The lieutenant tells City News Service that there was a scuffle and one of the robbers pulled a knife and slashed the store clerk's arm. Deputies arrested 19-year-old Oscar Jimenez,...

SAUGUS -- The two women whose bodies were found early today behind the Lynnhurst Elementary School were victims of foul play, Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett said. The bodies were found around 6:45 a.m. on the school grounds, which triggered the closure of the school and a major response by Saugus and State Police, who are now treating the case as a double homicide and the elementary school property as a crime scene. Blodgett's office this afternoon identified one victim as Donna Breau, 54, of Sheridan Street in the neighboring community of Lynn, saying the...

The suicide occurred in a second-story dorm room, but Tim Riley, after arriving on the scene, recalled noticing the black drops on the stairs first. He knew immediately how they got there. He had seen this before. Not as a police detective or crime scene investigator, but as the person hired to clean up the aftermath. "This is what happens when the medical examiner buys their body bags from the lowest bidder. They leak. So the contamination, when they removed the body, had been spread," said Riley.

HOUSTON -- Andrea Yates sobbed as prosecutors played a crime scene videotape in court yesterday showing her 7-year-old son floating dead in a bathtub and the bodies of her four younger children laid out on a bed. The video also showed toys in the yard and a baby swing hanging from a tree outside the suburban home on June 20, 2001, the day Yates killed her five children. She watched that part intently, but looked down as the camera moved inside. In the bathroom, it showed 7-year-old Noah floating face-down.

Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal stabbing in East Boston after a man was found dead just before 7 a.m. Friday outside a Chelsea Street three-decker. Police believe the victim was wounded inside an apartment and staggered into an alley between two houses, where he collapsed. He was found "suffering from multiple traumas" and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Investigators said they were trying to identify the victim and were awaiting autopsy results to determine the cause of death.

SPRINGFIELD - In a potential breakthrough in a long-unsolved child murder, authorities announced yesterday that they had established an "indisputable" link between a piece of evidence found near the 1993 crime scene and a deceased city man. Forensic tests have matched an item found in the woods near the remains of 10-year-old Holly Piirainen to David E. Pouliot, a Springfield man who died at 49 in 2003. "We've linked him forensically to the crime scene," Mark Mastroianni, the district attorney in Hampden County, said at a morning press conference.

In a section of Roslindale that has been scarred by a series of shootings this summer, a Washington Street three-decker became the site of an early-morning shooting that left a woman and a teenager dead and a man injured. As neighbors gathered across the street in the pouring rain yesterday afternoon, police combed through the second floor of the tan three-decker at 3964 Washington St., near the Forest Hills MBTA station. Police did not identify the 43-year-old woman and the 17-year-old boy who died.

The capture last week of Boston’s most sought-after criminal has given rise to speculation about the potential return of the city’s most sought-after art objects: the 13 pieces of artwork stolen from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. The US Justice Department and close associates of mobster James “Whitey’’ Bulger have long denied any link between him and the art heist, the biggest in history. Still, former federal prosecutors and FBI agents said after Bulger’s arrest that the Gardner theft looms as a prime topic of conversation between...

A motion partially unsealed late Friday shows that prosecutors in the Roger Clemens case sought to keep out allegations made against the government's key witness by his ex-wife. In the motion, prosecutors urge the judge to prevent the former star pitcher from using the damaging information concerning the witness, Brian McNamee — including that as a police officer, McNamee once placed a beer can in a dead woman's hand at a crime scene. The prosecutors argue the information is irrelevant to the trial.

A violent week in the city of Boston continued Thursday morning when a Boston University graduate student was fatally shot in a part of the Allston section that is usually safe, police and neighbors said. Police said officers found the 24-year-old man, whom authorities did not identify, lying outside on the 100 block of Allston Street at about 2:40 a.m., suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. "It's in an area that is relatively crime free," Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said during an afternoon press...

Authorities on Cape Cod are investigating the discovery of what may be human bones in a wooded area of Falmouth. The Cape and Islands District Attorney's office and Falmouth police said Friday afternoon that investigators and state crime scene specialists responded to the scene after getting a report that bones had been found. Investigators are removing the remains for analysis at the state medical examiner's office. Falmouth Police and state police assigned to the district attorney's office are investigating.

The suicide occurred in a second-story dorm room, but Tim Riley, after arriving on the scene, recalled noticing the black drops on the stairs first. He knew immediately how they got there. He had seen this before. Not as a police detective or crime scene investigator, but as the person hired to clean up the aftermath. "This is what happens when the medical examiner buys their body bags from the lowest bidder. They leak. So the contamination, when they removed the body, had been spread," said Riley.

State Police detectives are on the way to Cape Cod this morning to assist local police after a body was found washed up on the beach in the town of Yarmouth. State Police crime scene specialists are also on the way, the agency said. Investigators are trying to determine whether foul play was involved. No further information was immediately available.

SAN FRANCISCO - A 35-year-old man has been arrested in the killing of five people inside a San Francisco home last week, as police sorted through a crime scene so gruesome that they could not be sure how the victims died. "This was a complex crime scene," Police Chief Greg Suhr said, adding that 40 investigators were working on the case. "We had five deceased persons apparently from blunt force trauma. " Police took Binh Thai Luc in custody Sunday and booked him on five counts of murder.

WOBURN - The Winchester man accused of killing his wife, two young children, and mother-in-law last year is attempting to bar some evidence from trial, contending that it was obtained before a warrant was secured. In seeking to "suppress evidence obtained though a warrantless search," the attorney for defendant Thomas Mortimer IV drew grisly testimony yesterday from police and firefighters who described a blood-soaked crime scene inside 2 Windsong Lane on June 16, 2010. Attorney Denise Regan filed two motions in Woburn Superior Court, the other to suppress evidence...

A 16-year-old youth died last night after he and a 14-year-old were each shot multiple times yesterday afternoon less than a block from an elementary school on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester, police said. The 14-year-old boy's injuries were considered life threatening, police said last night. Police said they found the teens lying in the street near 253 Geneva Ave. at 3:25 p.m. They were taken to Boston Medical Center, where the older one died, police said. An officer at the scene said police were searching for a black man wearing a red shirt and black...

A fight between two men in a Dorchester restaurant ended in the stabbing of both men Saturday night, according to Boston Police. The dispute began inside Nice N' Clean Jamaican Cuisine at the corner of Bowdoin Avenue and Washington Streets before 9 p.m. and spilled out onto the sidewalk, according to Boston Police Superintendent Ken Fong. One man was stabbed in the chest and the other was stabbed in the neck. Both were taken to city hospitals. The man who was stabbed in the chest was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, said Officer Nicole Grant, a...