BOSTON — Boston Police are looking for two people accused of assault while using pepper spray. It happened on Monday in Roxbury.
Police released pictures of the two people involved and they are asking for help trying to identify them “in connection to an Assault and Battery by Means of a Dangerous Weapon (Pepper Spray) that occurred at about 12:50 PM on Monday, February 28, 2022, inside a business located at 108 Warren Street in Roxbury.”
It’s the second such incident involving pepper spray in Greater Boston in the last several days.
Newton Police say a woman stole almost three thousand dollars worth of merchandise from the TJ Maxx on Needham Street on Sunday and then walked out.
Police say surveillance video shows how she was followed out by an employee. When the worker tries to stop the woman she was pepper-sprayed right in the face.
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