Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Police Commissioner William Evans both met with Roslindale residents Thursday about the fatal shooting of a terror suspect in a CVS parking lot on Tuesday morning in an effort to let the public know safety is priority.
Walsh and Evans were working to ease resident's worries, just days after FBI and Boston police gun downed a suspected terrorist, 26-year-old Usaamah Rahim, at a Roslindale CVS.
Mayor Walsh says keeping the community informed is one of his priorities.
"Regardless of what the incident is, this happened to be an act of terror, we're still gonna do that. I think that's going to continue to build trust with the community," he said.
FBI officials say they were tracking Rahim for a while, detailing his plans in affidavit stating an attack on police officers imminent.
"I'm glad the affidavit came out so people understand the threat level that we had. There was a lot of questions, 'why, why, why did you have to stop him?' and I think it's clear they had some real malicious intent," Evans said.
Governor Charlie Baker has not seen the video of Tuesday's shooting; however, he backs Boston police for getting the footage out to community leaders.
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"The decision that Boston PD made and the FBI made to show the video to community leaders, and to do that very quickly after the incident, which is the same thing they did after the Moynihan shooting, was a very appropriate and, I think, sensible way of handling it," Baker said.
