Are you talking about the black guy who shot the white cop in the face from point blank range?
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_op...uspect_served_time_for_firing_at_police_in_01
The 41-year-old Boston man who authorities say was killed by police after shooting a decorated Boston cop in the face during a traffic stop in Roxbury spent nearly a decade in prison for firing at officers in 2001 and was described by friends as a devoted father who was trying to turn his life around.
“He was a good dude, just been married last year, just had a baby. He did a lot of time in prison but he was a good dude, he came home and turned his life around,” Shawn Washington said of his “best friend,” Angelo West, who was shot and killed by police on Humboldt Avenue Friday night. “I never, ever woke up crying — I woke up crying this morning.”
As members of the Boston Police Department’s Youth Violence Strike Force approached the vehicle that West was riding in at 6:40 p.m. near the intersection of Humboldt Avenue and Ruthven Street, West “exited the car and opened fire on the officer,” police said.
Officer John T. Moynihan, 34, suffered a gunshot wound to the face and was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition. West, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A third, female victim, who police believe was caught in the crossfire, suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was transported to Boston Medical Center.
This was not the first time West had fired at police officers — he was sentenced to 7 to 10 years in prison after a July 2001 shooting.
West was arrested after firing a .22-caliber pistol at a pair of cops in the Theatre District, one of whom was now-retired officer Bill Griffiths, 59, who was on routine bicycle patrol about 2:55 a.m. when he saw a state trooper grappling with West on Stuart Street. Griffiths said West begged him to shoot him.
“What I have to live with right now is to say, ‘Maybe if I had done just a little bit more that night then this wouldn’t have happened to this poor man,’ ” Griffiths, whose brother, Sherman, died in a Dorchester drug bust in 1988, told the Herald yesterday. “My family went through that with my brother — in the aftermath it’s always people saying ‘he’s a nice guy, he had a baby.’ His intent was to hurt policemen.
It’s been that way since 2001 when it happened to me and it was that way the other night.”
Griffiths, who had five back surgeries in seven years as a result of injuries sustained while tussling with West, said he isn’t going to spend too much time thinking about West.
“My heart and prayers and my family’s hearts and prayers go out to this officer,” Griffiths said. “I hope, God willing, everything works out well for him.”