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Posted by: 94c

Just heard this on the news. Looks like he'll be O.K.

http://wbztv.com/

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Posted by: pahapoika

Boston police officer and suspect wounded


BOSTON -- A Boston police gang task force officer and a suspect were shot Wednesday night in the city's Dorchester neighborhood.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis says the officer's injuries are serious but not life-threatening.
He said a preliminary investigation shows police shot one suspect who is in critical but stable condition.
Davis said a second suspect is still being sought.
He said the officer was shot as he was investigating suspicious activitity near the John Marshall School at about 9:50 p.m.

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Posted by: justanotherparatrooper

Best wishes for a succesful recovery to the officer

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Hub cop shot by thug



A bicycle lies on the ground after a shooting last night that sent Boston Police officer Stephen Romano to the hospital. (Staff photo by Stuart Cahill)

By Michele McPhee & O’Ryan Johnson
A reputed gangbanger pulled out a Glock and shot Boston police gang unit Officer Stephen Romano in the chest when he was asked for his ID during a gang sweep last night, police said.

The suspect was then shot twice in the torso by a state trooper assigned to the gang unit. Police sources identified the suspect as Antonio Franklin, 21, a known Castlegate gang member. A source at the scene said that despite his wounds, the suspect was laughing that he had just shot a cop.
Romano, a 13-year veteran assigned to the city’s Youth Violence Strike Force, was in guarded condition last night in the intensive care unit, sources said. A bullet entered under the right side of his bullet-proof vest and struck his rib, but did not hit any vital organs. The suspect was taken to Beth Israel Hospital and is expected to be arraigned this morning.

Romano and other gang unit cops had just conducted a raid on a nearby address where they seized a number of firearms when they stopped a group of suspected gang members on Westville Terrace at about 10 p.m. and asked for identification.
“They stopped them near the Marshall School. They thought they were going to do a hit on Crown Path,” a police source said, referring to a well-known walkway that is a hotbed of gang activity. “When they got out, the kid hopped on a bicycle. Officers started to chase him, and he turned around and fired.”
The police source said the suspect was about five feet away when he pulled the trigger. Moments later, fellow officers could be heard on the radio screaming, “He’s been hit. He’s been hit.”
The sound of return fire could then be heard as the statie returned fire, and the suspect collapsed off the bike. “The trooper thought he was dead,” the police source said. “But he got up like nothing happened.”
Someone who knows the suspect said he’s been caught up in the city’s violence. Franklin, who turned 21 Tuesday, was shot in the leg earlier this year on Olney Street, and had just been released from the South Bay Correctional Center.
“I don’t believe any cop deserves to get shot,” that person said. “My prayers go out to the family.”The suspect was first taken to the Dorchester precinct, where police found that he suffered two gunshot wounds to the torso, and they transported him to the hospital, a source said.
The suspect may have been feuding with members of Bowdoin-Geneva gang, the source said. Cops were also hunting a second suspect who fled after the shooting.
At the hospital, when he saw police brass, Romano’s first words were, “How’s my partner? Is my partner OK?” said BPD Commisioner Edward Davis, who was at the hospital with Mayor Thomas M. Menino.
“I just talked to the mother and the wife, and told her my prayers are with Stephen,” Menino said.
Last week, a 15-year-old pointed a gun at a cop’s chest in Dorchester and was arrested with several weapons.

“It’s very chilling to us,” said Superintendent-in-Chief Albert Goslin, who was also at the hospital last night. “There are a lot of guns out there, and this team has been responsible for taking a lot of them off the street.”
Known by his peers as a hard-scrabble, good cop, Romano is a lifelong Boston resident who grew up in Brighton and joined the force in 1994. His wife, Lynn, is a secretary for City Councilor Jerry McDermott, who was racing to the hospital last night after the shooting.
McDermott’s wife, meanwhile, watched after Romano’s two children.
“We owe a huge debt of gratitude to our officers,” Davis said. “It’s an example of the danger they face out there every day.”

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...format=&page=2

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Posted by: kwflatbed



Accused cop shooter Antonio Franklin is arraigned in his hospital bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center yesterday. (Staff photo by Mark Garfinkel)

Shooting suspect was topic of BPD huddle hours earlier

By Laurel J. Sweet, O’Ryan Johnson & Jessica Van Sack

Hours before he allegedly shot one of their own with a handcannon from the seat of a bicycle, a round table of Boston Police Department brass were discussing how to handle reputed Dorchester gangbanger Antonio Franklin.

» Wounded BPD officer is true ‘cop’s cop’

» ‘No Respect For The Badge’

» Gang was warned, cops say

» Destined for ‘bid or a body bag’

Police gang unit accepts the dangers

(By Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff) When one of their own was shot by a reputed gang member, it came as no surprise to the Boston Police youth violence strike force.


Officials say vow kept with arrests (By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff)

Officers rally around wounded colleague (By Brian R. Ballou and Maria Cramer, Globe Staff)

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