Two
Charged in Shooting at MBTA Station
BOSTON, Jan. 29,
2015— Two men were arraigned today after Boston Police stopped them as they
fled the scene of a double shooting at Forest Hills MBTA station, Suffolk
County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.
REGINALD
PRICE (D.O.B. 2/18/96) of Jamaica Plain and NICHOLAS BOOTMAN (D.O.B. 8/22/96)
of Dorchester were arraigned in West Roxbury Municipal Court on charges of
assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery with a
dangerous weapon on a person over age 60, assault and battery on a person over
age 60 causing serious bodily injury, unlawful possession of a firearm,
unlawful possession of ammunition, carrying a loaded firearm, and discharging a
firearm within 500 feet of a building. Assistant District Attorney Lauren
Greene requested that each defendant be held on $75,000 bail and that Bootman’s
bail on an open case out of Boston Juvenile Court be revoked. Judge Mary Ann
Driscoll set $50,000 bail for Price and $25,000 for Bootman and granted
Greene’s request to revoke Bootman’s open bail. In the event either
defendant is released on bail, he must stay away from Forest Hills and all
witnesses and abide by a curfew.
MBTA
Transit Police responded to Forest Hills MBTA station shortly after 2:00 p.m.
Monday for a report of a shooting in the upper busway. One victim, a
62-year-old woman, suffered life-threatening injuries when she was shot in the
back; a 24-year-old woman was shot in the head. Both were transported to
area hospitals.
Surveillance cameras in
the station captured two men, later identified as Price and Bootman, enter the
station and interact with three other males. Shortly thereafter, a camera
captured Price turn with a firearm in his hand and shoot at the males before
fleeing alongside Bootman in the direction of South Street, prosecutors
said.
Upon
hearing the suspects’ descriptions and direction of flight broadcast, two
Boston Police officers stopped Price and Bootman in the area of St. Rose Street
and South Street.
"None
of the intended targets was struck," Conley said. "Instead, two
people wholly unrelated to this conflict suffered gunshot wounds that could
have killed them. Fortunately, it appears that both will survive, and a
combination of good cameras and great police work resulted in the defendants'
arrests before anyone else was injured."
In
addition to witness statements and surveillance imagery, Transit Police
recovered ballistic evidence at the station.
Price
was represented by Adelio De Miranda and Bootman by Thomas Karp. Both
return to court Feb. 23.
media inquiries should be directed to Lt. Richard Sullivan at rsullivan@mbta.com
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The events listed above are allegations; All defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
