Police commissioner, DA say there’s no rift
Just three hours after Boston police found two people brutally murdered in a South Boston penthouse and had shot and arrested the suspect, Police Commissioner William B. Evans addressed the reporters at the scene.
The suspect, later identified as Bampumim Teixeira, 30, and the victims — doctors Lina Bolaños, 38, and Richard Field , 50 — knew each other, Evans told reporters. He also said that Teixeira had opened fire on officers who then returned fire, striking him three times.
But three days later, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley held his own press conference, dismissing portions of Evans’s account. Teixeira had not shot at police, Conley said, and the victims had not known the suspect. Evans was not in attendance.
The press conferences left observers wondering if there might be a rift between the city’s highest ranking law enforcement officials and also illustrates the balancing act of informing the public while also preserving the integrity of an investigation.
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