Crime & Safety

String of Gunpoint Robberies Hits Eliot St.

A suspect who threatened an Eliot School teacher with a handgun is still at-large.

Two gunpoint robberies Wednesday and Thursday have Eliot Street neighbors on alert.

A teacher at the Eliot School was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night, and a similar robbery in the vicinity took place on Holbrook Street near the entrance to the Eliot School yard Thursday night, according to a police report and an email obtained by Jamaica Plain Patch.

A suspect, a 6-foot-1-inch black male with a black knit cap, grey hooded sweatshirt, slight beard and blue jeans, used a handgun with a glock-type square barrel in the Wednesday incident, according to police. There is speculation among neighbors that the incidents involved the same suspects, but police have not confirmed this.

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Police canvassed the area following both incidents, but were not able to locate suspects.

Neighbors are in the process of organizing a community meeting regarding the two incidents. Police will be blanketing the area overnight, according to the email.

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