Gravestone stolen in Boston as advocates fear escalation in gang dispute (Heath: crime, high school)

[BostonBornMassMade]

https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/04...-gang-dispute/

A stolen gravestone has reinvigorated a rivalry between two Mission Hill-area gangs, according to police and community sources, worrying advocates about potentially escalating violence in a city that’s otherwise largely been able to avoid recent surges.

The Heath Street and the Annunciation Street gangs, which both have a history of violence, are taking issue with each other. The venues right now, oddly, are the internet and graveyards, with competing posts, according to community sources, circulating on social media of people kicking over gravestones in Boston cemeteries, and one headstone actually being stolen.

Here’s the background, according to a police source and community sources: The Heath Street gang is thought to have knocked over a gravestone of an Annunciation Road gangmember recently. Then, some Annunciation-affiliated people went to the Oak Lawn Cemetery along Cummins Highway and knocked over the gravestone of Gerrod Brown Jr., a local teenager who was shot to death in 2017 — and then carried it off.

The gravestone ended up in the first block of Annunciation Road, in the Alice Taylor public housing complex on the Roxbury-Mission Hill border behind Boston Police headquarters. That’s where cops found it, according to a police report that the department provided to the Herald when asked about the gravestone incident.

The report provides a few more details about the theft, reported this past Tuesday. On that day, someone — police redacted the name, as is common for them to do for witnesses — called the cops and said she’d seen photos from social media of Brown’s gravestone somewhere in Mission Hill.

[WestieWhitie]

Can’t wait for those gangbanger-infested sh*tholes to get bulldozed…

[Urban Peasant]

Heath Street and Annunciation Road. Have we turned the clock back to 1985? I wouldn't have thought I'd hear those two names again. I'd have thought those two areas have long been cleared of dangerous gangs. Next I suppose we can revive the Arborway Line, rebuild the Washington Street El, and turn the Wentworth Annex back into Boston Trade High School to get a good feel for bad old Boston again.

[bostongymjunkie]

Don't worry, crime is down. Nothing to see here. Move along.

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by Urban Peasant

Heath Street and Annunciation Road. Have we turned the clock back to 1985? I wouldn't have thought I'd hear those two names again. I'd have thought those two areas have long been cleared of dangerous gangs. Next I suppose we can revive the Arborway Line, rebuild the Washington Street El, and turn the Wentworth Annex back into Boston Trade High School to get a good feel for bad old Boston again.

Those areas have never stopped fighting. it’s only been calm the last 18 months because the feds have been around. But no there’s never been a natural lull at all. This comment is pretty far from the reality. 1985 is probably when their beef started and far from the peak of its intensity.