Authorities investigating death of man in ‘tense standoff’ with police in Jamaica Plain
Police said the man fired shots at responding officers and was later found with a fatal gunshot wound.
A man died over the weekend in Jamaica Plain in what authorities are calling a “tense standoff” with Boston police. Police responded to 21 Wyman Street around 10 p.m. on Saturday to a domestic violence report, Boston 25 News reports. When officers arrived at the address, which functions as a bed and breakfast, a man who was standing outside ran into the building and began firing shots at the police. Police evacuated about 15-20 people from the bed and breakfast and set up a perimeter, the station reports. “At one point the suspect appeared at the front window smashing the window and brandishing a firearm in the direction of Boston police officers,” Boston Police Commissioner William Gross told reporters at the scene. “An officer discharged his department-issued firearm in the direction of that male suspect. Again, this was a tense standoff.” When police entered the building they found a male suspect who had sustained a fatal gunshot wound, Gross said.The Suffolk district attorney’s office is investigating the incident, and authorities have not said whether the man was struck by police gunfire, the Boston Globe reports. Rollins told the newspaper the incident was “a complicated sequence of events” and that the man “lived at the dwelling and assisted with the day-to-day operations of the property.”The man’s name has not been released. According to the Globe, when police searched the man’s room on Sunday they recovered “hundreds of rounds of ammunition,” two handguns, and a short-barrel semi-automatic rifle.
