SHOOTING VICTIM, 17, DIES 2D YOUTH CRITICAL IN AFTERMATH OF VIOLENCE SUNDAY IN ROXBURY THIRD Edition

• Published in: The Boston globe
• Main Author: Patricia Wen and Sean Murphy, Globe Staff
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, Mass Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC 24.05.1988
• ISSN: 0743-1791

Exactly what prompted [Reggie Ballard] and Austin to join their friends from the Bromley Heath housing project -- and eventually clash with a group of teen-agers from Shawmut Avenue -- remains unknown. [Reginald Austin] gave the following account: On Friday night, some teen-agers from the Bromley Heath project were at a party on Ruggles Street, which was attended by some youths from the Shawmut Avenue area. For some unknown reason, a youth from Shawmut Avenue brandished a gun, then began to fire at a fleeing teen-ager from Bromley Heath. Nobody was hit. To [Nigel Austin]'s family and friends, he is known as "Tank" because of his stubborn, fighter personality. He grew up at the Bromley Heath project and lived most of the time with his great-grandmother, Cora Austin, 77. Two years ago, Cora Austin said, she sent the boy to Montgomery, Ala., to live with his mother and grandmother when she began to fear for his safety and well-being at Bromley Heath.