South End Resident charged with rapes dating to 2006 on Esplanade, in South Boston
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Alejandro Done, 46, of the South End, will face charges for at least six rapes and sexual assaults dating to 2006 - but investigators say they are looking at his connection to additional attacks.

Done was indicted recently for allegedly raping an Uber passenger in Cambridge after picking her up on Dec. 6 on Tremont Street in Boston.

A judge ordered him to supply a DNA sample. Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said today that State Police criminalists got a match for that from samples from four of five attacks on the Esplanade, Moakley Park and Preble Circle.

Conley called him a violent sexual predator who went after women walking alone late at night on summer weekends.

Conley said Done does not appear to have a prior criminal record.

In addition to the Cambridge rape, authorities have linked him to attacks on July 29, 2006 in Moakley Park, June 16, 2007 on the Esplanade, July 13, 2009 on the Esplanade and July 13, 2010 in Preble Circle.


Daytime shooting reported at West Newton and Columbus Avenue
No injuries reported, no suspect as yet

BPD investigated a report of a shooting on Columbus Avenue near West Newton Street late Monday morning, according to the Boston Police Department. The BPD received a call reporting shots fired at around 11:15 AM on Monday, July 13, and officers who responded to the scene found shell casings in front of 476-478 Columbus Avenue. The officers set up tape to cordon off the crime scene and attempted to gather information. They learned that the shots were fired when a suspect, a black male said to be wearing a baggy white shirt and gray sweat pants, got out of a gray sedan and shot at a teal or light green sedan. There are no known injuries, and the BPD is continuing to investigate the incident.

Channel 7 WHDH TV reported that "A witness aid a person got out of a car and fired shots from a "military-type gun" at a person in another car. Both drivers then allegedly took off in different directions, according to witnesses. Bullet shells were scene on the streets."

The BPD urges members of the public who have any information on this shooting to contact them. Residents may call the District 4 detectives office at (617) 343-5619 or contact the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800)494-TIPS or texting the word TIP to CRIME (27463). The BPD will safeguard callers' identities and callers may choose to remain anonymous.
Hunt for man wanted in connection with 2003 South End murders ends in Hyde Park traffic stop
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Carlos Silva, an alleged driver for a pair of murderers who gunned down two men in a car in the South End in 2003, was arrested yesterday afternoon after a traffic stop in Cleary Square, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Silva, 32, originally had a deal with prosecutors to testify in exchange for a charge of being an accessory after the fact to the murders of Jose Daveiga and Christopher Carvalho. But after he and another alleged driver fled, prosecutors dropped the deal and now Silva faces two counts of first-degree murder, which could put him behind bars for the rest of his life without a chance of parole.

The DA's office recounts its basic case against Silva and the murders, which came at the height of an outbreak of violence in Boston's Cape Verdean community:

Both victims were struck multiple times. Daveiga died at Boston Medical Center a short time later. Carvalho survived, but was paralyzed from the neck down and died of pneumonia in 2007 at the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, where he was confined to a bed and reliant upon a machine to provide him with oxygen.

Within an hour of the shooting, Boston Police stopped Daniel Fernandes' vehicle, obtained a Boston Municipal Court search warrant, and recovered a firearm and shell casings consistent with the victims' injuries and evidence at the scene. Additional investigation led to Silva's identification as the driver of the other vehicle. Both drivers were indicted as accessories after the fact to the shootings with the agreement that they would testify truthfully in proceedings against Odair Fernandes and two other gunmen. Instead, both fled the area and Suffolk homicide prosecutors were forced to terminate murder charges against the latter two defendants with the option of refiling them at a later date. Odair Fernandes was tried in 2006 and convicted of first-degree murder and armed assault with intent to murder. He is serving a life term without the possibility of parole plus an additional 18 years.

The agreements with both drivers were declared null and void when they deliberately failed to appear for trial. Both were subsequently indicted for the victims' homicides and remained at large as fugitives. Daniel Fernandes later surrendered and pleaded guilty to his role in 2009; Silva was apprehended after painstaking work by the Boston Police Fugitive Unit and US Marshals Office.


BPD Officers Recover a Loaded Firearm On Worcester Street
Submitted by BPD

At about 1:51 PM on Wednesday July 8, 2015, officers assigned to District D-4 (South End) responded to a domestic violence incident on Worcester Street. Officers assisted the victim on scene and quickly located the suspect a couple of blocks away, placing him in custody without incident. The suspect, Roderick Hamilton, 20, of Boston, was carrying a small duffle bag at the time he was stopped and asked officers numerous times if he could go back and leave it at the address where the incident had occurred. Officers declined his request and transported the suspect back to the station for booking with the duffle bag locked and secured in the trunk of their cruiser.

During the booking process, officers performed an inventory search of the suspect's bag, which is a standard practice, when they discovered a loaded firearm wrapped in a T-shirt belonging to the suspect. The weapon was rendered safe and seized as evidence by district detectives.
The suspect will appear in Boston Municipal Court on charges of Assault & Battery (209A), Unlawful Possession of a Firearm and Unlawful Possession of Ammunition.