Man, 14-year-old boy dead after shooting in Fall River park
By Nick Stoico and Christine Mui Globe Correspondent,Updated May 18, 2021, 9:57 p.m.
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A man and a 14-year-old boy are dead and another teen is in the hospital after they were shot at a Fall River park on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
Officers responded to a report of a shooting on Fifth Street adjacent to Griffin Park at 4:22 p.m.
and found two male victims on the sidewalk
suffering from gunshot wounds, Fall River Police chief Jeffrey Cardoza told reporters at the scene.
The pair , a 29-year-old man from Fall River and a 14-year-old , were transported to Saint Anneâs Hospital and Charlton Memorial Hospital, respectively, where they were pronounced dead by emergency room physicians, the Bristol district attorneyâs office said.
FALL RIVER More than 500 Vietnam veterans, Gold Star families, officials and friends and families gathered at Bicentennial Park on Saturday to honor the fallen and dedicate the region s recently completed 80% replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.
The $1.5 million project, which has been four years in the making led by a group of 16 volunteers, is a welcome addition to the city’s waterfront memorials to veterans killed in foreign wars.
“This is what happens when the community, its citizens and the Commonwealth work for a common cause this wall,” said Joe Marshall, president of the Fall River Vietnam Memorial Wall Committee. “Everybody here can be very proud of this monument and we’d like to think a focal point of Fall River and definitely Bicentennial Park.
âOur city was for saleâ: Fall River officials react after former mayor Jasiel Correia found guilty of extortion, fraud
By Nick Stoico Globe Correspondent,Updated May 14, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Boston, MA - 5/14/2021-. Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel F. Correia II (cq) leaves Federal Court, after being convicted on multiple counts. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff
Correia, a former two-term mayor, was convicted of using his power as mayor to extort bribes and commit fraud for personal financial gain, in part by shaking down marijuana companies hoping to do business in Fall River.
âUnder the former mayor, our city was for sale,â City Council President Cliff Ponte said Friday evening. âThis isnât and hasnât been the case since he stepped down, and I hope it never happens again.â
“It’s time that we put this behind us and learn from these mistakes,” Coogan added.
Correia, now 29, was the youngest person to be elected mayor of Fall River in 2015 when he defeated incumbent and former Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, who previously defeated then-mayor Will Flanagan in the state’s first recall election.
He was convicted on charges of soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from marijuana vendors in the city, defrauding investors in a purported app business called SnoOwl and filing false tax returns.
Flanagan expected a guilty verdict
Flanagan, a former assistant district attorney who is now a defense attorney, was expecting that Correia would be convicted on most charges.
Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia Found Guilty on 21 Counts
BOSTON Jasiel Correia II, once hailed as the boy wonder when he became mayor of Fall River at age 23, is now a convicted felon at age 29.
Correia was found guilty on 21 of the 24 federal charges he faced as he stood accused of defrauding investors in his app SnoOwl before becoming mayor, and then extorting marijuana companies seeking to do business in Fall River once he was in office.
Seven of the counts were related to his SnoOwl app, and how he took money from investors without delivering on what he promised the app would become; instead, prosecutors were able to prove he used the money to fund his lavish lifestyle, including purchasing a Mercedes, designer clothing, and taking trips with his then-girlfriend.