Two Temple Street Neighbors Brawl, One Sent to Hospital

Boston Police spoke with two Temple Street residents who apparently got into fisticuffs, sending one combatant to Brigham and Women's Hospital.

On July 20 around 7:50 p.m. at 36 Temple St., in West Roxbury, police spoke with two witnesses who did not see the fight, but heard one man, who was allegedly drunk, yelling at the other man. Both witnesses said the drunk man was often drunk and yelling at someone, according to a Boston Police report.

Police spoke with the man who seemed intoxicated and said he was arguing with the other man about "booze" and that it turned physical. The man said he was hit in the face by the other man's hands, which is why the left side of his face was swollen. The drunk man told police he "messed up the suspect good," according to a police report. 

The other man said he was going into his home when the drunk man started allegedly yelling at him for no reason. He said he's lived there for a couple of months and that out of no where the drunk man swung at him, but he "was in the military for 20 years and knows how to take care of himself and did so by punching the victim a couple of times and put him down," according to a police report. 

The drunk man was taken to the hospital for his swollen face.