Crime & Safety

6 Teens Charged After Attacking Boston Police Officers

The officers were arresting a family member of the teens.

Two Boston police officers were hospitalized Monday after they were cornered in a stairwell by at least six teens who attacked them as the cops tried to arrest a family member on a warrant in Roxbury, 
police said.

At 11 a.m. Monday, according to the Boston Herald, a male and female police 
officer went to Wayne Street to serve a probation warrant on Woobenson Morissett, 19, of Dorchester for defaulting on court 
appearances.

My Fox Boston reported the officers found Morissett in the apartment building’s rear stairwell, where police said Morissett attacked them, and while police were struggling with him, several of his relatives joined in the fight.

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The two officers were taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

All seven suspects will be charged with assault and battery on a police officer resulting in injury, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and resisting arrest.

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Five of the teens were 
juveniles: a 17-year-old male, a 16-year-old female, a 15-year-old female, a 14-year-old female and a 13-year-old female, all of Dorchester. A sixth teen, Lorcen Morissett, 18, of Dorchester, also was charged with resisting arrest and assault and battery on a police officer.

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