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An armed robber held up a teacher at gunpoint inside a small arts school in a Jamaica Plain neighborhood Wednesday night. The incident, along with a second robbery in the area Thursday night has police stepping up patrols in the area near Eliot Street, an area considered a walking neighborhood near Monument Square.
On Wednesday night, a suspect described as a black man in his 20's, about 5-feet-8 inches to 6-feet-1 inches tall, medium build and wearing a hoodie made his way to the second floor of the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts.
Executive Director Abigail Norman says he showed a weapon and demanded the teacher's wallet and cellphone.
"He (the teacher) had a lot of poise, lived in the city his whole life, and knew to give the stuff away," she said.
Sheriff Ken Campbell of Boone County, Indiana, defending Second Amendments Rights for his citizens to be best equipped to protect themselves, and their family from criminals.
A "tragedy all the way around"... What the Hell is wrong with you, Carolyn? Report the news, not your BS opinions. That 70-year-old man protected multiple lives from habitual thug criminals.
