Dorchester Reporter “The News and Values Around the Neighborhood” Volume 31 Issue 3 Thursday, January 16, 2014 50¢ Bob Quinn, Dorchester stalwart, dies at 85 By Bill Forry Leaves rich political legacy; ity Financial, recalled that reporter editor Quinn spent several years Robert H. Quinn, a Savin Hill in his youth recovering from native who recovered from a life enthusiastic UMass booster tuberculosis at the now-defunct and death bout with tuberculosis who became speaker of the Mas- Margaret Church at Blessed Boston Specialty Rehabilitation as a young man to became one sachusetts House and, later, Mother Teresa Parish on Hospital on River Street. Trin- of the Commonwealth’s most state attorney general. He was Columbia Road. His funeral ity converted the main hospital powerful political leaders of a pivotal figure in bringing the Mass will be said tomorrow at building into an assisted living his generation, died on Sunday University of Massachusetts to 10 a.m. at St. Margaret’s with housing complex in 2003, and morning after being stricken at its present home on Dorchester’s interment to follow at Cataumet Keefe dedicated one of the his home in Falmouth. Columbia Point in the 1970s. Cemetery on Cape Cod. rooms in the building to Quinn Robert H. Quinn Mr. Quinn, 85, was a state He will lie in repose today Jim Keefe, president of the in a ceremony several years ago. 1928-2014 representative from Ward 13 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at St. Boston development firm Trin- (Continued on page 20) Henriquez guilty on two assault counts By Andy Metzger StAte HouSe newS Service State Rep. Carlos Hen- riquez was convicted on Wednesday of two counts of assault and battery on an Arlington woman in July 2012 and acquitted of three other charges, including one count of assault and battery to the face. Henriquez, a Carlos Henriquez Dorchester Democrat, Judge Michele Hogan stood quietly as the immediately sentenced foreman of the six-person the legislator to two- jury read the verdict and-a-half years in jail, in Cambridge District Mayor Marty Walsh announced the appointment of Boston Police Department Commissioner William with six months to be Evans, left, and Superintendent-in-Chief William Gross, right, at a press conference last week. Court. (Continued on page 5) Photo by Chris Lovett Familiar Dot face is city’s No. 2 cop Parents try out By gintAutAS duMciuS tive who started as a pa- seeing police responses know his deep ties to our new BPS system trol officer in 1985, is the to night calls. community and broad newS editor ing school year, gives first African-American to “I’ve known Chief experience give him By dAve eiSenStAdter William “Willie” Gross, parents fewer choices, a longtime law enforce- be appointed to the role. Gross for many years, a uniquely qualified SpeciAl to tHe reporter Boston Public Schools but gives them choices ment presence on the He has worked on the going back to the early perspective on address- are in the second week that are closer to home, streets of Dorchester, is gang and drug control days of my career as ing violence in Boston’s of school registration for according to Denise now the Boston Police units, and became deputy a state representative neighborhoods.” the new school assign- Snyder, the Senior Di- Department’s superin- superintendent in 2008. in Dorchester,” said Gross has worked in ment system. rector For the Office of tendent-in-chief, the No. He was later promoted Boston Mayor Marty Area B-2, which includes The Home-Based Welcome Services for 2 position on the force to superintendent and Walsh in announcing Roxbury and Mission school choice system, Boston Public Schools. Gross, a Maryland na- night commander, over- on the promotion. “I (Continued on page 4) established for the com- (Continued on page 4) Dorchester man seeks new trial, citing withheld evidence, police corruption By elAine A. MurpHy in 1993 at age19, was was freed from prison tackling tough post-con- SpeciAl to tHe reporter one of two teenagers in 2007 after a ruling viction legal challenges, A Dorchester man convicted of putting five by the Massachusetts including the flawed serving a life sentence bullets into the face of Supreme Judicial Court first-degree murder con- All contents for a cop killing 20 years Boston Detective John discredited fingerprints viction of Dorchester’s ago – a crime he says Mulligan -- “to get his that police claimed were Shawn Drumgold, has copyright he didn’t commit – may gun for a trophy,” pros- his. submitted a retrial mo- © 2014 Boston yet have a chance for a ecutors said. The other Boston defense at- tion for Ellis centered on Neighborhood new trial and freedom. youth, Terry Patterson t o r n e y R o s e m a r y exculpatory information SEAN K. EllIS Sean K. Ellis, arrested of Hyde Park, then 18, Scapicchio, known for (Continued on page 9) 20 years behind bars News, Inc. The joints are jumpin.’ Center for Orthopaedic Care 199 Reedsdale Road, Milton, MA 02186 | www.bidmilton.org | 617-313-1445 Page 2 THE REPoRTER January 16, 2014 Reporter’s Notebook On The Record Gubernatorial hopefuls Baker Apartment complex eyeing Walsh volunteers sold to California firm By gintAutAS duMciuS opportunity for candidates to organize newS editor and prepare for the June 14 Democratic With his supporters flooding the state convention before they move on streets of Boston on the day of the to the September primary. preliminary election in September, “So many primaries in the last few Marty Walsh’s field organization years have been fairly low-turnout was the envy of rival campaigns. events,” Grossman said. “So in a On Election Day in November, the low-turnout primary, if that’s what organization had people at every Red takes place, the army of activists is Line stop on the Dorchester leg of the what makes the difference between transit system, pulling voters to their winning an election and not.” polling locations. Grossman pointed to his marketing Now gubernatorial candidates are communications company and said hoping that those same volunteers, he is the “only Democrat running for who were spotted wearing red shirts governor who has spent a lifetime proclaiming their support for the in my own fourth-generation family Dorchester Democrat, will be sporting business, creating jobs.” The company their team colors this year. Asked is in its 62d year as a union shop, and last week if he had requested Walsh’s they’ve had paid family leave for 25 support, State Treasurer Steven years, “so we run the business in a Grossman, one of the five Democratic very progressive way.” contenders looking to succeed Gov. “My goal, fundamentally, is to leave Deval Patrick, said, “I certainly will. no one behind,” he added. “And jobs and And I think every candidate will.” economic security to me is the critical The others issue that trumps almost every other. running for So that’s where I’m going to spend The Baker Chocolate Factory apartments have been sold for $24.1 million, ac- t h e D e m o - most of my time focusing first and cording to a report the Boston Business Journal. The three-building, 133-unit cratic nomina- foremost. A, it differentiates me from campus was purchased by Fairfield Residential, a California-based firm. The tion include all my competition; and B, it’s going to seller was Beacon Communities, a Boston-based company that acquired the A t t o r n e y create the energy and the optimism in apartment complex in 2008 for $10.6 million. The Journal reports that Beacon General Mar- the small business sector that I think Communities renovated apartments and common areas in the apartment tha Coakley, will make Massachusetts a place where buildings, which are situated along Adams Street near the Neponset River. a lot of growth can take place in the The buildings were once part of the Baker Chocolate Company plant that former Obama dominated the local economy until the 1960s. The factory was converted into administra- years ahead.” housing in the early 1980s. According to CBRE New England, the firm that tion officials Grossman plans a tour of the state that facilitated the sale, the apartments include 12 studios, 80 one-bedrooms Don Berwick similar to the one he embarked on and 41 two bedrooms with an average unit size of 792 feet. and Juliette when he ran for treasurer in 2010. K a y y e m , An ice cream fan, he hit as many and health shops as he could, as a way to talk to Beaches Commission meeting at UMass Boston Tony Dang care executive potential voters about his candidacy for The Metropolitan Beaches Commission will hold a public meeting at the Plans in flux Joseph Avel- treasurer. This year’s tour kicks off in UMass Boston Campus Center on Sat., Feb. 1 from 10 a.m. – 12 noon. Last lone. Charlie Attleboro sometime in late March or year, the Commission, in partnership with Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, held Baker, who unsuccessfully ran in early April, at Bliss Brothers. He said 10 public hearings at the State House and in Nahant, Lynn, Revere, Winthrop, 2010, is considered the frontrunner for he senses activists are ready to jump East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Quincy, and Hull. Nearly 700 people the Republican nomination. Several back onto the campaign trail after a participated in the hearings and scores more took part in an online survey. independents are also mounting bids, long year.