South Boston home invasions are at "crisis" levels, former mayor Ray Flynn said after a 67-year-old widow was found stabbed to death in her home with signs of a possible break-in.
"It's a crisis. It's all precipitated by drugs. The police are doing the best they can, but people have had it," Flynn, an Echo columnist, was quoted as saying in a Boston Herald report Tuesday.
Barbara C. Coyne, 67, a registered nurse, was found inside the three-family townhouse she owned on East 7th Street suffering from a fatal knife wound, the Herald reported.
"This could destroy a neighborhood. You've got to do a little more than fill out a police report. The taxes are high enough. If we're not safe, what's the point?" said Flynn, a Southie native whose own home was broken into last year. That crime that remains unsolved.
