UPDATE: The woman who was pushed died this afternoon, the DA's office reports.
Tajanetta Downing, 24, was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bail today at her arraignment on charges she pushed an elderly woman to the ground in Chinatown, "causing a serious head injury to the victim," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
WBZ reports the woman is not expected to survive - and that a member of the Ghostbusters film crew helped police find her after the incident at Chauncy and Essex - near where they were filming yesterday.
According to the DA's office:
Assistant District Attorney Amy Galatis of the DA’s Homicide Unit told the court that Downing and the 72-year-old female victim crossed paths in the area of Essex and Chauncy streets yesterday. Investigators believe they had some fleeting physical contact after which Downing allegedly shoved the older woman.
The older woman fell and hit her head on the pavement. She was rushed to Tufts Medical Center with a serious, life-threatening head injury. She remains hospitalized in critical condition.
Downing's alleged temper has gotten her in trouble before.
Innocent, etc.
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"Paying the terrorist and
By Patricia
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 4:08pm
"Paying the terrorist and racisim parts out"?
I have no idea what that sentence is supposed to mean, sorry.
Well,then
By Brian Riccio
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 4:53pm
you certainly fit into Howie's key demographic, don't you?
Ghostbusters, huh? Well, I
By Finn
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 9:03pm
Ghostbusters, huh? Well, I hope this lady is haunted forever by what she's done.
Ghostbusters
By Harrison
Thu, 07/09/2015 - 10:58pm
Most Chinese are very superstitious about ghosts and death, this is going to reiterate in the local papers World Journal and Sampan. Now the movie is going to really be haunted. I was down there today, if you want to blame anyone. After the crazy girl, it's really the cops and the film crew, the traffic should have been diverted, the film crews were yelling at pedestrians to go away and saying no pictures. Hello it's s public street! RIP grandma you will always be loved.......
This is exactly how bicyclists kill people
By Markk02474
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 10:47am
For all you cyclists, let this be a warning on how pedestrians can die if you run into and knock them down riding your bicycle. The deaths caused by bicyclists (eg. in SF and NYC) have most often been of middle-aged to elderly people who have been knocked down and hit their heads on the pavement much like Yuzhen Lei here. If you don't kill an elder, chances are good you will break their hip and they will then die within a year of suffering and trying to recover.
LOL
By SC from JP
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 11:08am
Top-notch performance art in this thread. Stephen Colbert-level stuff.
Statistics Please
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 11:39am
Actually, there aren't enough such incidents outside your fantasy world to even do stats.
Meanwhile, how many killed in hit and run with a car or truck in Boston this year alone? OH WAIT THAT'S ALWAYS THE PEDESTRIAN OR CYCLISTS FAULT!!!!!
Right. Some white dude with multiple license suspensions and a borrowed rental car mows people down driving in a reckless manner and you are right there with all the excuses in the world for the loser and vicious attacks on the minority victims. Ditto for your drunk driver friends "confused" by traffic islands. Because car. Some black woman knocks over and kills an elderly lady and you start building strawmen to attack.
Go take a leap into alewife brook - it has some nice, ripe CSO discharge for you to swim in. Why limit yourself to the metaphorical?
Jeezus F. Christ, Swirls
By Bob Leponge
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 11:41am
Stop taking the bait.
I haven't met Jesus F.
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 11:57am
I grew up hearing the gospel of Jesus H. Christ, however.
Care to testify?
And then there's Christ on a crutch...or a cracker.
By Sally
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 4:12pm
So much confusing blasphemy!
Hold on there ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 07/11/2015 - 12:32pm
I thought Christ WAS the cracker ... or the cracker is Christ.
I'm so confused!
Just anecdotes
By Markk02474
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 2:27pm
You clearly missed the point of my comment above. Bicyclists (and a fellow pedestrian in this crime) don't think they can kill someone by bumping into them and knocking them down. They can, and here is an example of it. That is the point.
Less surprising and noteworthy is that pedestrians and cyclists can die from being hit by motor vehicles. That was never in dispute nor were any relative comparisons, except in your imagination.
Google provides many hits for cyclists hitting and putting pedestrians into comas if not killing them. For car accidents, Arlington has had a staggering 3 pedestrian fatalities in the past 18 months. The pedestrians AND the drivers were all 60 years old or older.
Please dry up....
By Michael Kerpan
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 2:34pm
... and blow away with the next breeze.
Arlington's staggering pedestrian fatalities
By lbb
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 2:39pm
Many hits? "Many" is not a number, and a hit is not an incident. Try googling "Charleston church shooting". About 53,200,000 results, Google says! Gee, I didn't know there were 53 million churches in Charleston, let alone 53 million church shootings. So let's dispense with "many hits" as validating anything. Instead, let's see how many incidents we can find in Arlington in the past 18 months of a pedestrian killed by a cyclist. Now let's see...pedestrian killed by a car...pedestrian killed by a car...gosh, is Google broken? I just can't find a single incident of a pedestrian being killed by a cyclist in Arlington in the past 18 months.
*For the reading public, I hear there are some tasty apples and oranges on the other side of MarKKK's moving goalposts, but you're gonna have a hell of a time getting to them.)
Most excellent
By lbb
Fri, 07/10/2015 - 1:56pm
Going for the Barking At The Moon Crazy hat trick on this one, are you, MarKKK?
Poor old woman
By Nard
Sat, 07/11/2015 - 9:33pm
This 24 year old woman I hope she gets life in prison for what she has done put your hands on a 72 year old god what is the world turning into my prayers go out to to this woman's family and I hope the one who did it rites in hell
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