A 33-year-old Milton man faces gun and assault charges after he allegedly shot a man who was said to have been trying to rob him at gunpoint outside a Mattapan store, prosecutors said yesterday.Wonder if he still wants to trade in that gun...?
But the defendant's family and friends said yesterday that the accused man, Robert Washington, had a gun last Thursday only because he was on his way to turn the weapon in to a police station in exchange for a gift card under Boston's gun buyback program...
"We're assuming that if he didn't have the gun, we'd be burying him instead of watching him go to jail today," she said.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006