Black Boston, MA Minister, Public School Dean, Charged With Attempted Homicide

SCHOOL FIGURE CHARGED: Rev. Shaun O. Harrison is arraigned on a range of charges yesterday.
Photo by: John Wilcox

[From article]
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.
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They were young kids coming in at all times, at 2 in the morning. ... It was worse on the weekend,” said a 61-year-old woman who said she knew Harrison was a well-known minister.
Dante Lara, Wilson Peguero and Oscar Pena were arrested after authorities saw them leaving Harrison’s home on Wednesday. Pena and Lara were carrying guns without a license, and Peguero had marijuana. Bradley indicated that they may have been helping Harrison get rid of evidence, but those charges have not yet been filed.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/03/rogue_rev_shot_teen_in_the_head_officials_say

Rogue rev shot teen in the head, officials say
Friday, March 6, 2015
By: Bob McGovern, Richard Weir and Antonio Planas
Boston Herald