Homicide Watch Boston

**Update (7/31/2014): Smith was formally charged with first-degree murder at South Boston Municipal Court Thursday and will return to court on Sept. 18, 2014. A press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office has been added below.** Marquis Smith, 23, of Hyde Park has been charged in connection with the February 2014 shooting death … Read more →

Boston police have identified the man fatally shot Feb. 23 on Boston Street as 23-year-old Daniel Paul Taylor, of Dorchester. Officer’s found Taylor’s body outside on Boston Street between Howell and Bellflower streets near the sprawling South Bay shopping plaza at about 12:42 a.m., police said in a post on bpdnews.com. He was taken to … Read more →