Thursday, 4:30 PM
Police respond in Forest Hills to shooting
By John R. Ellement, Globe Staff
A man was shot several times today and found near the Forest Hills T station, police said.
A blue Chevy Astro van with a shattered window is parked opposite the Washington Street entrance to the Arnold Arboretum. Police have placed an orange evidence cone on top of the van, which has its middle passenger door open. It was not immediately clear if the victim was shot near the Forest Hills station or in another location. Boston police have closed Washington Street from the T station south to Ukraine Way.
The victim was rushed to Brigham and Women's Hospital. Details about his condition were not immediately available. While police investigated the shooting, a jury from another case was on a courtroom trip to inspect the Orange Line stop at the Forest Hills station.
On Feb. 5, 2003, a gun shot in a crowded subway car hit Adama Hawa Barry in the abdomen when she was 8 1/2 months pregnant. Barry survived, but her baby died.
Chimezie J. Akara, 23, and Andre Green, 22, are on trial for first-degree murder in Suffolk Superior Court. They both pleaded not guilty.
A contingent of about 25 people including 16 jurors, Judge Thomas E. Connolly, court officers, and prosecutors and defense attorneys made a trip to the Forest Hills station today to ride the Orange Line to the Massachusetts Avenue station to see where Barry was shot.
