Beacon Hill residents were on edge Sunday, a day after a woman was sexually assaulted and robbed inside her apartment there, while police urged the public to be vigilant after that attack and two assaults on teenage girls in Roxbury last week.
“It’s sort of nerve-racking, because I always thought of this as a safe neighborhood,” said Julia Probert, 23, as she walked with friends Sunday afternoon near the scene of the Beacon Hill attack. The assault occurred Saturday at about 3:15 a.m. near the corner of Joy and Myrtle streets, where stately brick homes are located close to shops and a public playground.
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It’s about time the residents woke up, just last week a man was stabbed on Beacon St across from the Public Garden. Emerson a few years ago was named the most dangerous campus in the country and why do you think all these beautiful homes have bars on the back of their homes. I lived on Beacon across from the Common and woke one morning with a man with a knife standing over me. Things like these do not get reported.