BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald
Friday, March 6, 2015
By: Bob McGovern, Richard Weir and Antonio Planas
A crusading minister and public school dean, who for years challenged the city’s crime-ridden neighborhoods to take back their streets, fell from grace and into the thug life, recruiting a student as a drug dealer, then shooting him after promising him a night of drugs and women, prosecutors say.
The Rev. Shaun O. Harrison, 55, of Roxbury — known as “Rev” to his students — borrowed the unidentified victim’s cellphone to make a call while walking on Magazine Street on Tuesday night and then tried to kill him “execution style,” wounding him with a shot that grazed the back of his head and lodged in his jaw, according to prosecutors.
“He had told the victim that they were going to a house to get marijuana and meet up with some girls,” Assistant District Attorney David Bradley said. “There was no one else on the street and he was shot in the back of the head. Then Mr. Harrison fled the scene.”
Harrison was arrested after he turned himself in for questioning. He was ordered held on $250,000 bail on a charge of assault with intent to kill.
The student told police he had been selling marijuana for Harrison — his “mentor” — for several months.
Bradley said Harrison had a mural of Latin King gang members in his home and shared a matching tattoo with two other men who were arrested after leaving his house, and arraigned in court beside him on gun and drug possession charges.
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