Man shot in Downtown Crossing, police say ⁠1%

By John R. Ellement⁠2%

7/10/2026, 12:53:48 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Unattributed Quote, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 31.6% saturation with 25 hits. Analysis detected 87 faulty-reasoning hits from 79 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of ⁠1% (21,807 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 99.60% of the article peer group.

A man was shot in Downtown Crossing Thursday night, Boston police said Friday. 
Officers responded to 141 Tremont St. around 10:23 p.m. to investigate a report of gunfire in the area. 
“Upon arrival, officers located a male victim suffering from an apparent non-life-threatening gunshot wound,” police wrote in a statement. 
The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment, police said. 
The investigation is ongoing. 
No further information is currently available. 
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79 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker24%attributed speech60writer words
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Writer's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coveragepolice • 19 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverage
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police

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19 attributed words100% of attributed speech70% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%police: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-11.7 ptsWriter: 11.7%police: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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