Suspect in fatal Boston Common assault arrested after second attack, police say 4%

By Samantha Genzer8%

7/22/2026, 11:26:37 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Appeal to Authority, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 23.3% saturation with 54 hits. Analysis detected 161 faulty-reasoning hits from 232 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 18.5% and a BS Rank of 4% (19,768 of 20,545 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.20% of the article peer group.

A person accused of fatally assaulting a man near Boston Common early Wednesday was arrested hours later after allegedly attacking a second victim with a metal pole in downtown Boston, police said. 
Around 5:20 a.m., officers were called to the intersection of Tremont Street and Boylston Street, near the MBTA Boylston Green Line station, and located a man “suffering from trauma,” the Boston Police Department said in an announcement. 
The victim was pronounced dead at Tufts Medical Center, police said. 
His identity has not been released. 
A second incident occurred hours later, just before 10 a.m., at the intersection of John F. 
Kennedy Surface Road and Beach Street. 
There, a second victim was struck from behind with a metal pole, causing him to fall to the ground, police said. 
The second victim was taken to a hospital for treatment. 
Police did not specify the severity of his injuries. 
Authorities arrested a suspect allegedly carrying a metal pole nearby. 
Detectives later determined that the person apprehended for the Beach Street assault was the same person involved in the incident at Boylston and Tremont streets, according to police. 
Ashlie Jeremie, 27, of Bedford, is charged with murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and larceny under $1,200, police said. 
Jeremie is expected to be arraigned in Boston Municipal Court, police said. 
Confirmation Bias
23.3%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
12.1%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
4.3%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
6.9%
Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
9.5%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
4.3%
Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
9.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

232 words analyzed.

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