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Bullet Fired into Boston Branch Prompts Heightened SecurityBoston city officials have promised to install some combination of security cameras, motion-sensing lights, warning signs, and a six-foot chain-link fence at Boston Public Library’s Mattapan branch after a stray bullet came through the building’s window, flew past a room full of children, ricocheted, and came to rest in a book October 3.“A little boy said he felt the wind of the bullet go by his face,” said library staffer Laurel Cannon in the October 13 Boston Globe. “It was just unbelievable.” Police have made no arrests in the incident, which they said could have been part of a gang-related shootout. In a two-hour meeting with some two-dozen community residents held in the branch October 12, city officials, including Boston Public Library president Bernard Margolis, said the heightened security measures could be in place as early as mid-November. Police said they expect to maintain increased patrols in the area for the next several weeks. “If the well-to-do and wealthy can have cameras watching their trash, we can have cameras watching our children,” said police Captain Tim Murray. Posted October 14, 2005. |
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