BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald

Friday, March 6, 2015

By: Bob McGovern, Richard Weir and Antonio Planas

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…