No Pension for Former Boston Police Officer Who Drunkenly Shot Officer in West Roxbury
Former Boston Police Officer Paul Durkin pleaded guilty to assault with a gun in 2007.
A Massachusetts District Court upheld the Boston Retirement Board's decision that a former Boston Police officer forfeited his pension due to drunkenly shooting another officer in West Roxbury in 2006. On Jan. 18, Judge Francis Marini of the Taunton District Court affirmed "the decision of a judge of the District Court that determined that the Boston retirement board (board) correctly decided that Durkin's pension was forfeited." Durkin was a Boston Police officer and on June 21, 2006, after finishing his afternoon shift, he went to an evening cookout at the Dorchester Yacht Club, according to the ruling. He attended the cookout in civilian clothes, carrying his department-issued firearm in his off-duty holster on his hip, as was …
