A man was shot by Boston police in the city’s Brighton neighborhood, and the incident is under investigation, according to local reports. A 7News reporter later posted that sources said the man had a knife, refused to drop it and lunged at officers before he was shot; that account has not been confirmed in the supplied police statements.
NBC Boston reported that police said officers responded to an address on Selkirk Road around 7 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30, and described the matter as an active investigation. The outlet said police had announced an update on the officer-involved shooting for 12:30 p.m. The precise time the shooting happened was not established in the report.
The location was identified as 24 Selkirk Road. WCVB reported that the address is near Cleveland Circle in Brighton. MassLive, citing a Boston Police Department spokesperson, reported that a person was shot by police there Friday, but said the department had not provided the person’s identity or condition at the time of publication.
In a post timestamped 11:46 a.m. EDT, ahead of the scheduled briefing, 7News reporter Steve Cooper attributed the account about the knife and the man lunging to sources. The available reporting does not establish the man’s condition, whether anyone else was injured or the full circumstances leading to the shooting. Police had not released further details in the cited NBC Boston and MassLive reports.
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