BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald
Monday, March 9, 2015
By: Laurel J. Sweet, Antonio Planas
More than two years of police records released to the Herald yesterday appear to support Police Commissioner William B. Evans’ claim that the Rev. Shaun O. Harrison was not on his department’s radar before last week’s arrest on charges that he tried to murder a teenager who was selling pot for him.
In response to a Herald request made Thursday, police yesterday turned over a log of 77 calls for service from Pompeii Street in Roxbury — where Harrison, 55, shares a three-family home — made between Jan. 1, 2013, and his arrest Wednesday. None of the calls indicate drug activity, and responses specific to Harrison’s building, but not his apartment, are for a stolen cellphone and noise disturbances.
Police spokesman Lt. Michael McCarthy repeated Evans’ claim that police knew nothing, saying “there was no indication” of criminal activity by Harrison, who last week was fired as “dean of academy” — a parent-student coordinator’s job — at English High School in Jamaica Plain.
“The only time we became aware of anything was after the shooting, when we talked to the victim, nor did any of the neighbors let us know what was going on or call the cops about drugs on the street. We had no knowledge of anything going on with him,” McCarthy said. “We’re extremely shocked and disappointed, if the allegations are proven to be true. He was involved with youth, so he was certainly a faith-based resource that we could reach out to.”
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