
06/28/2025
ACA reviews shootings, meetings, bestows John Woods a lifetime award
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By Jeff Sullivan
The Allston Civic Association (ACA) met last week in a virtual format and discussed neighborhood issues.
Firstly, Boston Police Department (BPD) D-14 Community Service Officer Christine Marini discussed two shootings that occurred two weeks ago.
“They don’t usually occur,” she said. “The first was on June 12 on Pomeroy Street, which if you’re not familiar, it’s off of Gordon Street closer to North Beacon. We got a number of calls around 8:09 p.m. of shots fired. We did locate a juvenile male on the sidewalk there, he had a head injury from the fall and a gunshot wound to the chest. He is in critical condition and homicide has taken that case.”
The juvenile victim later succumbed to his wounds on June 17. He was 15 years old.
“Last night, there was another shooting incident around 9:20 p.m. around 282 N. Beacon,” she said, which is adjacent to the Faneuil Gardens Boston Housing Authority (NHA) building. “We got a lot of calls and when officers arrived they found the victim with a gunshot wound to the arm. They applied a tourniquet and got him to the ambulance and he’s going to be okay. Fortunately, on this incident the BHA has video and they anticipate an arrest shortly.” Marini said both shootings did not appear to be random.
In some good news, Marini said the neighborhood is a little safer in one regard, at least. “House breaks are really down,” she said. “We had four last month for the whole month. They’re still in that Gardner, Ashford and Pratt area. We have some video and the detectives believe this is the same person hitting this area and they’re hoping to get a little more on that and make an arrest soon. The suspect came in and the (victim) had a camera and wasn’t home. She called us quickly because she was alerted from her camera someone was in the house. He came in and threw a blanket over the camera so they have good video for that.”
Marini said another incident saw a witness observe the suspect jumping out of a window, and the witness called the homeowner first before calling the police.
“So my advice is if you see anything like that call us first,” she said. “The he called the neighbor, she wasn’t home, she got home and she said she believes he got in through the front window. They removed the bars and pushed in the screens. So the best thing to do, and I know the window is nice and you like to leave the windows open, but if you’re on ground floor you really need to shut the window.”
In other news, D’Isidoro announced that the ACA had selected Allston Brighton Community Development Corporation (ABCDC) Director John Woods by the group for this year’s Joseph M. Smith Community Service Lifetime Achievement Award.
D’Isidoro said Woods was selected, along with that of the ABCDC,for helping to bring affordable housing to the neighborhood, which has been seeing home prices and rents spike for the better part of a decade.
“He’s out there doing God’s work,” D’Isidoro said. “As you know, we got the Hill Memorial Project on North Harvard Street and the Warren Building on Washington Street. They purchased some additional units as well and are retrofitting Raymond Street. They’re just doing an extraordinary amount of good work that has taken place in this community. So John, congratulations.”