"It was a freak thing. … This is a safe place, no matter what,"
said Rubi Simon, a librarian at a Mattapan branch of the Boston Public Library, about a shooting near the library resulting in a bullet sailing through the building.
The lead photo on The Boston Globe’s City Weekly section caught my eye: What is that black material with a hole in the center? It’s a window shade pierced by a bullet hole. Unfortunately, the striking photo isn’t part of the online article. The account of the stray bullet’s travels through the library and what measures the BPL is taking because of the shooting are, though.
