Crime & Safety

Two Charged in Shooting at Forest Hills Station

One of the charged men is from Jamaica Plain.

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Two men were arraigned Thursday 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.

According to a recent press release, Reginald Price, 18, of Jamaica Plain and Nicholas Bootman, 18, 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.

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MBTA Transit Police responded to Forest Hills MBTA station shortly after 2 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.

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Price and Bootman return to court on February 23.

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