Isaac Rasheed Smith

September 29, 2019

Isaac Rasheed Smith

DEMOGRAPHICS
Black, Male, 37

LOCATION
21-23 Wyman St. Jamaica Plain, MA

ARMED
Gun

CLASSIFICATION
Gunshot

POLICE DEPARTMENT
Boston Police Department


Boston police identified the deceased man as Isaac Rasheed Smith, 37, who lived and worked at the 14-room bed-and-breakfast at 21-23 Wyman St. His death remains under investigation.

Police have said they arrived on the scene around 10 p.m. Saturday for a domestic call and saw Smith standing outside.

He started to enter the building and officers followed, but he suddenly fired a handgun at them, police said. Officers retreated and blocked off the street, as guests trapped inside the bed-and-breakfast were texting 911, police said.

Officers evacuated some — but not all — of the approximately 20 people staying at the bed-and-breakfast before they saw Smith appear in a second-floor window with a firearm, police said. Smith used his gun to smash through the window, and officers were alarmed, thinking he might start shooting again, Police Commissioner William Gross said early Sunday.

“Being in fear of not only the lives of residents in that building and in the neighborhood [but] in fear of their own lives, an officer discharged his department-issued firearm in the direction of that male suspect,” Gross said.

After the officer fired, Gross said, police entered the house to evacuate the remaining guests who were hiding in their rooms, and they found Smith’s body with a “fatal gunshot wound,” Gross said.

STATUS Under Investigation


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