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Boston Common murder suspect sent for eval at Bridgewater State Hospital 15%
By Colleen Cronin21%
7/23/2026, 3:50:19 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Availability Heuristic, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 17.2% saturation with 118 hits. Analysis detected 433 faulty-reasoning hits from 686 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 31.3% and a BS Rank of 15% (18,626 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 85.10% of the article peer group.
The man accused of brutally killing someone on Boston Common Wednesday will be evaluated at Bridgewater State Hospital to see if he is competent to stand trial.
Ashlie Jeremie, 27, only briefly appeared at the central Boston Municipal Court Thursday after he allegedly left one man dead and then injured another person the day before.
Neither victim has been identified.
Jeremie spent most of the hearing standing in a doorway but out of view from the media.
Forensic psychologist Dr.
Janelle Hickey said that Jeremie had declined to meet with her after she warned him about the limits of her confidentiality and also declined an intake at South Bay House of Correction the night prior.
But, based on some observations from herself and his attorney Robert Griffin that included “self-dialoguing” and a seeming lack of understanding about the court process, she said Jeremie needed an evaluation at the state hospital.
Hickey also noted that Jeremie said he hadn’t slept in two days and had stopped taking his medication.
He also has a previous bipolar diagnosis with “psychotic features” and does receive services through the Department of Mental Health, she said.
When asked by Assistant District Attorney Ursula Knight if Jeremie understood her warnings about confidentiality and decided to decline the interview because of it, Hickey said she believed that was true.
In addition to the murder charge, Jeremie faces assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and larceny under $1,200 charges.
Judge James Coffey entered not guilty pleas for Jeremie on all counts.
Jeremie will be back in court Aug. 11, after his evaluation is completed.
Boston Police first encountered Jeremie Wednesday morning at Tufts Medical Center around 3:55 a.m. when the suspect was allegedly “following staff and refusing to leave,” a police report said.
He was wearing dark baseball cap, a green sweatshirt, and khaki pants, a white backpack, and a smaller crossbody bag.
Around 5 a.m., police responded to a call at the intersection of Boylston Street and Tremont Street on the Common for a “person down,” according to the report, which said surveillance video showed someone wearing the same outfit “assault and beat the victim with an objection.”
The victim was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead less than two hours later.
Around 9:49 a.m. officers responded to another call of a person allegedly hit over the head from behind near John F.
Kennedy Surface Road and Beach Street, the report said, with the victim describing someone who matched Jeremie’s description.
Police said they found and arrested Jeremie at the scene of the second assault.
He had a metal pole in his possession, according to officials.
Jeremie was arrested on the assault, then issued a warrant for the murder.
The U.S.
Marshals confirmed that Jeremie had been in federal custody about two weeks prior to the killing and assault on a pending gun charge.
Jeremie allegedly brought a gun into the O’Neill Building on May 18.
Officers determined that there was a handgun in Jeremie’s backpack when it went through an X-ray machine at the entrance of the building, according to an affidavit from a Federal Protection Services officer.
The gun was at the bottom of the bag and wrapped in several layers of plastic bags, the affidavit said.
Jeremie denied knowing that the gun was in the backpack, claiming that he had picked it up outside of a store weeks earlier.
He also told officers that the backpack had gone through an X-ray machine at the Roxbury District Court earlier that day without incident.
The defendant was arrested and held in custody.
On July 6, a federal judge ordered that Jeremie be released on a $2,500 unsecured bond, meaning that he agreed to pay the bond if he violated his release conditions, according to court records.
Federal prosecutors had requested that the defendant remain behind bars.
Per the conditions of his release, Jeremie was required to spend each night at the Pine Street Inn, until he found more permanent housing, take his prescribed medications, and attend therapy and psychiatric sessions.
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