Update from the Boston Globe (I removed Robbery from the headline.)
According to several reports on Twitter, there’s been an attempted robbery and shooting on Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands. I don’t see official word from the Police but it sounds like the robber was shot by a police officer.
From Ch. 7:Undisclosed incident draws large police presence to Newton store
Right Now: Police involved shooting on Lincoln Street in Newton Highlands. Suspect just taken away by ambulance.#WCVB pic.twitter.com/68OmzQ0Xq2
— Mary Saladna (@MaryWCVB) January 5, 2021
Not enough details to form an opinion.
Did the robber have a gun, knife? Did he already attack someone? Hostages?
Here’s the Patch story.
there are a few interesting details emerging here. Was this even a robbery? A story on WCVB and another on the Boston Globe suggests otherwise. Then there is this from the Globe story:
Jeff Carter, property manager of a group of buildings on Lincoln Street that includes Indulge! candy shop, said the male shooting victim lives in an apartment above the store.
He identified the victim by only his first name, Mike, and said he’s lived in the apartment for about two years. Carter said he heard prior to the shooting Tuesday, Mike had wanted to show a woman in the shop something. But the woman, Carter said, apparently called police because Mike had a knife at the time.
Carter was later called to the scene, he said, and gave police the keys to the man’s apartment.
Dear City Councilors and Mayor Fuller: We will never truly know what happened in that man’s apartment. Get body cameras now.
Why so many police if the guy was alone with a knife in his apartment? At that point he wasn’t a threat to anyone except himself. Why not a social worker or someone else who knows how to talk with someone off their meds? This sounds to me like a very unnecessary shooting and death, and it happens all too often!
Update from WHDH
https://whdh.com/news/da-investigating-after-newton-police-fatally-shoot-man-following-report-of-robbery/
Interesting arm chair law enforcement experts I see….
If a crazed 6 foot 280 pound strong young man attacked me with a knife after he was not fazed with a Taser and a beanbag by Shotgun, had just threatened my life, discussed murdering people to the shop owner and had thrown a fire extinguisher at me with the intent of harming me, I would shoot to kill him to save my life, as much as I would regret it
I am 100% grateful that the shop owner, the police officers, and the deceased neighbors were not harmed and went home to their families
It’s terrible for anyone to die, but let’s not reinvent law-enforcement rules so that more innocent people die