2 people shot in Somerville night

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

It looks like a police officer and a suspect were shot tonight in Somerville:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/police_officer_2.html?comments=all#readerComm

The Globe article says the suspect later died from his gunshot wound.

ETA more info: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/11/police_officer_2.html

Comments

[ron_newman]

On quite residential Spring Hill near the Armory and the Somerville Museum -- not the kind of neighborhood that expects such things.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Wow, holy shit.

[ron_newman]

this is the second time someone has shot at a Somerville cop in 2 days! wtf

Monday's shooting

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I was driving up Central Street from Somerville Ave tonight on my way from work back home to vote, and at the intersection of Central and Summer I sat through two cycles of the light as multiple different emergency vehicles came blaring through the intersection to get down to whatever was going on there. I adjusted my route, but it was obvious something big had happened. I saw multiple police cars, two firetrucks, and an ambulance. Well, now I know. Damn.

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

Looks like the suspect, Matthew Krister, has been causing trouble in Somerville before (http://www.wickedlocal.com/somerville/news/x599193833/Gun-toting-men-ambush-black-market-electronics-dealers). Also bummer, since it looks like he just got his real estate license (http://license.reg.state.ma.us/pubLic/pubLicenseQ.asp?board_code=RE&type_class=_S&license_number=009516246&color=loca&lb=RE)

[arrowintwolakes.livejournal.com]

I was wondering where smoterh got his/her information and found this updated story: Somerville officer shot serving warrant; suspect killed (http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/somerville/2010/11/aram_boghosian_photosfor_the_g.html).

[squirrelitude]

Wow, that was a nearly content-free article. A "suspect"? Are they a suspect because they shot a cop, or was the cop just telling them off for jay-walking? Could be anything behind this incident.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[squirrelitude]

Ah, there's the updated story. Serving an arrest warrant.

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I just posted the first article I saw. The second, added link has a little more info, and arrowintwolakes (above) posted an article with even more info.

[squirrelitude]

Oh, I wasn't blaming you! I was just bitching about the "publish now, report later" mentality of news agencies.

[gruene.livejournal.com]

I talked about this with the cop who was working my election precinct. Not surprisingly he was a bit out of sorts over it. This is something I'm sure all cops worry about: You're doing your job and someone opens fire on you.

The one thing he said that was interesting was that the wounded cop was taken to Mass General while the suspect was taken to some less good hospital I'd never heard of. He also implied that perhaps he was left there to die because no one wanted to waste their time saving a cop shooter. However, this seemed like speculation on the part of the cop and probably had rather little basis in reality.

[maffematician.livejournal.com]

I would agree Ron, yet just three weeks ago, across Highland Ave in the 100-block of Central St., a man stabbed another man in the neck over a drug-related incident. You remember the article on Patch (http://somerville.patch.com/articles/intense-manhunt-for-attempted-murder-suspect-ends-in-arrest)? (Of course; you commented on it. ;)

Also, lower down in these comments, smoterh points out an article from 2009 when several people, including a person matching the name and age of the person in this week's incident, were involved in a gun crime in that same neighborhood, the 100-block of Central St. That incident was right across the intersection from this week's incident.

Unfortunately, such events in the same neighborhood do start to add up. That's one of my favorite parts of town. :-|

[ron_newman]

This article says the perp was taken to Somerville Hospital, which you've probably heard of. It's just a few blocks from the scene of the shooting.

[gruene.livejournal.com]

That is probably what he said, I think I just misheard him. Apparently the suspect was dead by the time he got there, which would explain why no one operated on him.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

If the suspect was in very bad shape, that might have been reason enough to take him to the hospital right next door before moving him to a higher-level facility. If they'd tried to get him to MGH, he might have just died en route.