BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald

[with video]

Sunday, March 8, 2015

By: Lindsay Kalter

City officials are still mum on why Shaun O. Harrison, a reverend and Boston Public School employee accused of shooting a 17-year-old student execution-style Tuesday night, was allowed to work around youths despite what prosecutors say was apparent drug and gang activity at his home.

“Certainly this situation is very troubling to me,” Mayor Marty Walsh said yesterday. “We’re talking about some of the most vulnerable kids in our system, in our high schools, and somebody who’s supposed to be a mentor to them.”

He said an investigation is ongoing, and there will be “more to say once the investigation is complete.”

Harrison, 55, of Roxbury, an English High School “dean of academy,” was charged Thursday with assault with intent to murder, and police say more charges are expected after detectives searched his Pompeii Street home…