WEST ROXBURY PROBATION OFFICER REMOVES FIREARM FROM STREET

During a recent Operation NightLight patrol through a Jamaica Plain neighborhood, Brad McNichols, a Probation Officer at Boston Municipal Court (BMC)-West Roxbury, and members of the Boston Police Department’s Gang Unit recovered a firearm stashed in a paperbag near a group standing around a makeshift memorial for a recent murder victim.

The Intratec 25 Caliber handgun was found alongside a building in a housing development police and McNichols responded to following reports of gun shots during their weekly visits to homes and neighborhoods where probationers reside.

“We were in what is considered to be a ‘hot spot’ on a NightLight visit when the call came in. When we responded to the call, we found a group of young men around a memorial for a young man who was recently killed,” McNichols said. “We were talking to several young men when the gun was discovered. The police took everyone’s fingerprints.”

McNichols said there was an “active gang dispute” between young men in the group and rival gang members.

“It was good to take this firearm off the very street where another young man had been killed,” he said.