Episode Twenty | Abel Harris: The Shooting at Bunratty's, Allston, Mass with David Giammatteo

Allston Rock City: The events of August 1, 1987 are difficult to reconcile. A man nobody knew walked in to a rock club and shot one of the most beloved members of their misfit family.
 
 The rock band Bang was wrapping up their set when a man who had been asked to leave hours before returned to the club, pulled out a gun and started shooting. It took no time for patrons and regulars to figure out the sounds were not coming from the band and everyone ran for cover.
 
 That’s when bartender Abel Harris hopped over the bar and approached the shooter to reason with him to stop firing. Instead of talking, the man raised the gun and put two bullets into Abel's head.

 
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Source Links
 
 Youth Enrichment Services - YES www.yeskids.org

Gravely Wounded Bartender Dies

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/08/10/Gravely-wounded-bartender-dies/4055546808655/

 Court Document

http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/417/417mass126.html

Music Museum of New England - Bunratty’s
 https://www.mmone.org/bunrattys

About Abel Harris

https://kingsolomonsgate.com/AbelHarris.htm

Bunratty’s page

https://www.bunrattys.com

ARCHIVES

Boston Globe - Warrant Issued For Quincy Man In Shooting At Allston Bar, by Alexander Reid, Aug 5 1987

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294376747/EF112812A2BA4376PQ/1?accountid=9675

Boston Globe - Shooting Suspect Believed Headed For Las Vegas, Aug 7 Aug 1987
 https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294411935/fulltext/EF112812A2BA4376PQ/2?accountid=9675

Suspect In Allston Bar Shooting Is Arrested In Kansas After Chase
 By Doreen Ludica, Aug 8, 1987

Https://Www-proquest-com.Ezproxy.Bpl.Org/Bostonglobe/Docview/294375026/Ef112812a2ba4376pq/3?Accountid=9675

Globe - Shot Bartender Dies In Hospital, by Richard Ray And And Diane Alters, Aug 11, 1987
 https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294328155/fulltext/EF112812A2BA4376PQ/5?accountid=9675

Globe - Slaying Of A Bartender Reminds Colleagues About Risks Of The Job

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294418429/fulltext/EF112812A2BA4376PQ/6?accountid=9675

Boston Globe - A Thanks To All For Remembering Son, by Richard Ray, Aug 13, 1987

Https://Www-proquest-com.Ezproxy.Bpl.Org/Bostonglobe/Docview/294489524/Fulltext/Ef112812a2ba4376pq/7?Accountid=9675

Boston Globe - He Was Protecting 'his Family,' Friends Say Of Slain Bartender, by Diane Alters, Aug 14 1987

Https://Www-proquest-com.Ezproxy.Bpl.Org/Bostonglobe/Docview/294488551/Fulltext/Ef112812a2ba4376pq/8?Accountid=9675

Globe Suspect Secluded At Court Hearing, by Richard Ray, Aug 14, 1987

Https://www-proquest-com.Ezproxy.Bpl.Org/Bostonglobe/Docview/294357755/Fulltext/Ef112812a2ba4376pq/9?Accountid=9675

Family Maintains Vigil For Wounded Bartender Allston Shooting Suspect Remains At Large, by Diego Ribadeneira, Aug 4, 1987

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294499948/3A699731DB1F42F7PQ/4?accountid=9675

Suspect In Allston Bar Shooting Is Arrested In Kansas After Chase, by Doreen Ludica, Aug 8, 1987

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/bostonglobe/docview/294375026/3A699731DB1F42F7PQ/8?accountid=9675

Globe Archives - Accused killer of bartender was impaired, defense says

Doris Sue Wong, April 7, 1988

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/hnpnewyorkbostonglobe/docview/2228411386/A5A970FDD3424FF7PQ/94?accountid=9675

Jurors start sorting in death of barkeep, April 13, 1988

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/hnpnewyorkbostonglobe/docview/294479916/fulltext/A5A970FDD3424FF7PQ/97?accountid=9675

Bunratty's defendant guilty: Life term ordered for fatal shooting, Doris Sue Wong, April 14, 1988

https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.bpl.org/hnpnewyorkbostonglobe/docview/2241426236/A5A970FDD3424FF7PQ/98?accountid=9675

Wonder Bar announced it is closing in the fall of 2020

boston.com/food/restaurants/2020/11/23/wonder-bar-closed

Zoom 02134

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_rcTW8OxPk

Allston Christmas

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/08/30/allston-christmas-boston-moving-permits-storrow

Moving in Boston

http://boston.gov/moving

http://billtmiller.com/allston

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