March 7, 2015

Police blotter: Boston

Daily Beast - Shaun Harrison, a former dean in Boston’s Public School system, is accused of shooting a 17-year-old student execution style after an argument over drug-running. That’s just the start of it.

On Thursday a Boston Public School employee, reverend, and anti-violence activist was arraigned for the execution-style attempted murder of a 17-year-old student who attended the school at which he worked.

Assistant District Attorney David Bradley argued in Roxbury Municipal court that Shaun Harrison had enlisted the teen to sell marijuana for his drug operation, but after an disagreement on Tuesday, he instead lured the high schooler back near his apartment and he shot him in the back of the head before fleeing on foot. The teen, who survived the attack, with the bullet lodging in his cheek, later identified Harrison as the shooter, and admitted their business dealings to police.

“It’s amazing that a person who was shot in the head was able to speak with investigators, and did identify Harrison,” Jake Wark, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office spokesman explained to the Daily Beast. Video footage taken from a nearby construction site corroborates the victim’s account, the prosecution says.

Harrison was hired just two months ago at Boston English as the Dean of Academy, where he served as a coordinator dealing with at-risk students.

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