Two papers on a shooting in the city
An unknown triggerman gunned down a player in the brutal Roxbury street gang Orchard Park Trailblazers yesterday and shot two of the con’s friends in an apparent home invasion seeking the wheelchair-bound victim’s drug stash, sources told the Herald.
Jason Collins, 31, a longtime gangbanger who is in a wheelchair from a blast of bullets that left him paralyzed at age 15 - the first of three attempts on his life - is clinging to life at Boston Medical Center after a morning shooting at his apartment at 39 Schulyer St. in Roxbury.
(Score another one for Michele McPhee?)
This is, well, this is Boston Globe:
His love of basketball, his wheelchair, and his street-tough sensibility had won him the nicknames Hops, Wheelie, and Hoffa. Twice as a teenager in Orchard Park he had been hit by gunfire; the first time, when he was 15, left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Yesterday, Jason Collins, 30, was shot again, for the third time, while he was in his wheelchair in his apartment in the Grove Hall section of Roxbury.
I hope this will remain a two-paper town for a long, long time.
WizBang also noticed the Globe’s adversity towards relevancy.
