The year in crime and public safety was one of major leadership changes from the US Attorney for Massachusetts to the Boston Police and Fire departments. It was also a year of heartbreak in neighborhoods where murders by gun and assaults took a heavy toll. Following is a look back at it all, beginning in January: •As DA Rachael Rollins prepared to leave her post in January for
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BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) A man shot inside a Massachusetts mall over the weekend has died, authorities said Monday. Dijoun C. Beasley, 26, of Boston, was shopping inside a store at the South Shore Plaza in Braintree on Saturday afternoon when he was shot by another man with a handgun, according to a statement from Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey and Braintree Police Chief Mark Dubois.