2 Teens Charged in Shooting at Forest Hills Station
Two teens were arraigned on charges Thursday related to Monday’s double shooting at the Forest Hills MBTA station.
Reginald Price of Jamaica Plain and Nicholas Bootman of Dorchester, both 18, each face a number of charges, including:
• 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
• Discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building.
Prosecutors asked for $75,000 bail for both defendants, with an additional request that Judge Mary Ann Driscoll revoke Bootman’s bail on an open case out of Boston Juvenile Court. Driscoll agreed to that, but ordered lower bails for the suspects: $50,000 for Price and $25,000 for Bootman.
The shootings near the station’s bus platform grazed one woman and gave another a life-threatening back injury. Police believe the victims were not the suspects’ intended targets and are “exploring the possibility’’ the attack was gang related.
Police later apprehended the suspects near St. Rose Street and South Street and said they have video and ballistics evidence tying the men to the shooting.
“None of the intended targets was struck,’’ Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley wrote in a statement. “Instead, two people wholly unrelated to this conflict suffered gunshot wounds that could have killed them. Fortunately, it appears that both will survive, and a combination of good cameras and great police work resulted in the defendants’ arrests before anyone else was injured.’’
The men are due back in court Feb. 23.
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