Eveline Barros-Cepeda (above) was shot to death by a Boston Police officer while riding in the back seat of a car on Fayston Street in Dorchester in 2002. Police officers fired on the vehicle after an officer was struck as they attempted to pull the car over as they investigated an earlier shooting on Cushing Avenue. Image courtesy Blackstonian
In the wee hours of a Sunday morning in September 2002, a Boston police officer opened fire on a fleeing vehicle he said had tried to run down his partner on Dorchester’s Fayston Street near Uphams Corner. One of the bullets struck Evaline Barros-Cepeda, a rear seat passenger in the car, killing her.
The shooting was, in some ways, not remarkable for the time. It was the seventh police shooting within a two-year stretch and the 98th instance of a discharged police service weapon in the city since 1990, according to BPD records…