Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Homeless on the MBTA

They must have had a bad experience:

"Two accused in attack on MBTA worker; Homeless pair was being led out of station at closing" by Nestor Ramos, Globe Staff  November 17, 2014

A homeless couple accused of attacking an MBTA employee in the Downtown Crossing Orange Line station — using racial epithets as they punched him in the face and ripped out his hair — will be held without bail on probation violations.

Robert G. Snyder, 50, and Shayla M. Witts, 28, shared a brief kiss in a Boston Municipal Courtroom on Monday before a prosecutor described the allegations against them: sucker-punching a T inspector who was escorting them out of the station at closing time, then beating him while hurling racial slurs. They each face charges of assault, battery with racial intimidation, and disorderly conduct.

Ooooh. I'm not big on the age difference.

Both Snyder and Witts are homeless and have long criminal histories, according to court records. Snyder has been convicted of assault 12 times, Assistant District Attorney Brett Walker said, among several other lesser convictions and guilty pleas in recent years.

Witts’s right eye was badly bruised and swollen nearly shut. According to her lawyer, she has a nonviolent criminal history, a pending prostitution charge, and an 8-year-old child with autism....

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