Nice Jewish Boy from Boston
Leah Rabin
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BOSTON MED STUDENT "TRAINED ASSASSIN" SHOOTS TWO MEN IN THEIR SLEEP
Slaying suspect ordered held without bail
BU medical student pleads not guilty
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff, 3/8/2001
He was just a few months away from being a doctor. But the Boston
University medical student bragged about being trained as an assassin by
the Israeli military, and on Friday morning crept into an apartment and
methodically shot two men in their sleep, prosecutors said yesterday.
Still wearing green hospital scrubs and shielding his face from
television cameras with a white lab coat, Daniel Mason, 35, pleaded not
guilty yesterday in West Roxbury District Court to charges he murdered
Michael Lenz, 25, and severely wounded Gene Yazgur, 28. A judge ordered
him held without bail after prosecutors told the court Mason had
threatened to kill Yazgur, who was pressuring him to pay $118,000 in a
court settlement awarded after Mason attacked Yazgur in 1997 during a
traffic dispute.
Yazgur, a computer engineer, was wounded in the head, chest, and legs. He
is in a coma at Boston Medical Center, the same hospital where Mason was
training to become a doctor. Lenz, Yazgur's roommate, a graduate student
from Minnesota, died of three shots to the head.
Robert Jubinville, Mason's lawyer, said Mason has been on medication,
which could become a significant factor in the case. ''I am exploring
what medication he is on and what it is for,'' Jubinville said. Shocked
BU students described Mason as a private, extremely religious man who
gave out tickets to temple during Jewish holidays.
But before entering medical school in 1994, prosecutors said, the student
from Worcester had spent five years in a special commando unit of the
Israeli military. Mason told friends he had been ''specially trained to
carry out assassinations,'' and evidence found in his apartment was
''consistent with that claim,'' Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Josh
Wall said.
Mason told a friend he would kill Yazgur hours after receiving a
court order on Thursday directing him to start paying the $118,000, Wall
said. Yazgur's lawyer also was allegedly threatened. ''He made statements
that they were not going to receive the money,'' Wall said yesterday.
''His threat was, `I'll kill them first.'''
According to Wall, Mason borrowed a black knit hat, took a 9mm handgun
he'd had purchased in 1992, and drove to Yazgur's Jamaica Plain
apartment around 5:30 a.m. Friday. He allegedly shot Lenz in the temple
as he slept in a room stacked with books of poetry. Then he allegedly
entered Yazgur's bedroom and shot him through the chin. When Yazgur woke
and tried to flee,Mason stopped him with shots to the chest. Then as
Yazgur lay on the floor, Mason shot him in each leg, expertly breaking
each femur, Wall said.
Before leaving the apartment, Mason turned his gun on a dog Yazgur had
brought back with him from a trip to Alaska. Wall alleged that after the
shooting, Mason also tried to arrange a false alibi, asking a friend to
tell people he had been at home that morning. He also told a friend:
''Don't worry about the apartment. They won't find anything. It's
clean,'' according to Wall.
Mason's mother and father sat rigidly during the court
hearing near the defendant's two brothers, who wore white shirts and
yarmulkes. After the 1997 attack, Mason was convicted of assault and
battery and placed on probation. Several months later, he had a violent
argument with another person in Brighton District Court while waiting to
see his probation officer, said a source familiar with the current case.
Mason was arrested Monday at Boston Medical Center while working with
patients under doctors' supervision, according to BU officials, who added
that the school was unaware of his past conviction. Mason was due to
begin a pediatrics rotation at North Shore Children's Hospital on March
13. Because of Mason's military background, police took extreme
precautions before his arrest, not releasing the name of the hospital
where Yazgur was recovering out of fear for his security and sending a
police car to the house of Jefferson Boone, Yazgur's lawyer in the civil
case. Boone said the future doctor would have had 20 years to repay the
$118,000 debt, with 12 percent annual interest.
But Boone said Mason swore ''You won't see a penny'' on the day the judge
awarded the settlement. Lenz was a graduate student at the University of
Massachusetts at Boston who dreamed of publishing his own poetry, friends
said. He had just moved to Boston this fall from Paynesville, Minn. His
body was returned yesterday to the farming town of 2,000, where a funeral
was scheduled for tomorrow.
Yazgur, who moved to Brookline from the Soviet Union as a teenager, loves
rock-climbing, dogs, and parties, his friends said. The night before the
shooting, Yazgur had stayed up late, drinking cocktails with Lenz and a
downstairs neighbor. Thoughts of the settlement were far from his mind,
friends said. ''He didn't expect to see any of that money,'' said a
friend who asked not to be identified. ''But he didn't expect that guy to
come after him either.''
Anne Barnard and John Ellement of the Globe Staff contributed to this
report. This story ran on page 1 of the Boston Globe on 3/8/2001.
© Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company.
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When have you read a news story more sensational, shocking and compelling then this? Did
you notice the date? March 8, 2001. Yet you haven't read about this in your paper. Think
if you can about the dozens of stories from around the country that have appeared in
your newspaper since March 8, 2001 that are but a fraction as interesting as this. What
is it that has kept this story from spreading across the nation? What has kept this
story from becoming the talk of the country?
Here is something even more astonishing, this story has not even appeared in Boston's
other newspaper the Herald! Go ahead; enter "Daniel Mason" into the search engine of the
Boston Herald's archives. You will return nothing in your search. Enter the name of
Mason's attorney and you will bring up a few articles but none about Mason. Yes the
"nice Jewish boy" has a prominent Boston attorney defending him and still the Herald has
not printed a story about this shocking murder case. Isn't that the way a certain
"religious", "ethnic" group in America that seems to have a strangle hold on the
government in Washington D.C. which it uses to siphon off over $6billion every year for
Israel would also like to have it?
Daniel Mason is the "heart" and "soul" of the Jewish people. Daniel Mason is the King of
the Jews. If you don't pony up $6billion every year for Israel the Jews will stick their
thumbs into your eyes. If you don't give in after that they'll sneak into your house at
night and fire bullets into you in such a way that you will die as Michael Lenz did and
you will suffer as Gene Yazgur has.
Are you going to read about this in your "newspaper"? Are you going to see endless
stories-or even one story-about Daniel Mason, the Israeli assassin in Boston on your TV?
No, because the Jews own the media in America (http://natvan.com/who-rules-america ) and
they'll stick their thumbs into your eyes before they let you see Daniel Mason, the
"nice Jewish boy" from Boston as he really is.
Want to know something even more astonishing? Daniel Mason is not going to spend the
rest of his life in a Massachusetts prison. He will likely get a hung a jury and be
released and within 48hrs of his release he will be in Israel before the prosecutor can
file for a new trial and get Daniel Mason back into custody, and that's the last that
some of the Boston public (not the Herald's readership) will ever hear about the Israeli
assassin from Boston, the "nice Jewish boy" Daniel Mason.
If he is convicted the Jews will work tirelessly to appeal his case spreading favors and
money throughout the judiciary until they can get Daniel Mason free on appeal pending a
retrial and then he'll flee for Israel and that will be the last anyone will hear about
him.
At least Americans won't hear about him. The Palestinian children will certainly know
about Daniel Mason. They will feel Daniel Mason's thumbs in their eyes. They will feel
bullets fired from Daniel Mason's American M-16 shatter their bones.
Urthman
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<snip>
- you really need to check your sources!
Archive search for the Boston Herald:
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/
From the Boston Herald Archives after searching for Daniel Mason - 25
articles popped up. Out of those, these three conflict with your claim that
they don't exist:
March 6th 2001:
REGION in Brief; Malden man is held in JP double shooting
(sorry - couldn't get any text without paying for it!)
March 7th, 2001:
Boston University med student arrested on murder charge
Michael Lenz, 25, a postgraduate student at the University of Massachusetts
who is formerly of Paynesville, Minn., died at Brigham and Women's Hospital
after the shooting. Lenz was Boston's 13th murder victim this year.
[Daniel M. Mason] and [Gene Yazgur] had been involved in a long-running
dispute stemming from a knife fight in 1997 during which Mason sliced off
part of Yazgur's ...
March 8th 2001:
BU student, ex-commando charged with JP murder
Daniel M. Mason, 35, of Malden, allegedly shot Eugene Yazgur, 28, and
Michael Lenz, 25, as they lay in their beds early Friday morning because
Mason did not want to pay a $120,000 court jury award owed to Yazgur.
[Josh Wall] said detectives focused on Mason after learning he recently was
served with a judgment order stemming from a 1997 lawsuit filed ...
Flaagg
Rabin <Leah....@shalom.org> says...
> When have you read a news story more sensational,
> shocking and compelling then this?
People shoot and kill people all the -time- in America, what's so
sensational, shocking and compelling?
--
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Leah Rabin
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Shooting victim fights to rebuild his body, his life
By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff, 8/12/2001
The eight bullets that riddled Eugene Yazgur's body met their marks with an
assassin's precision: One entered the 28-year-old's nose, breaking his teeth
and shredding his tongue. Another pierced his liver. Another ripped into his
arm. Still another snarled just shy of his spine. Two more snapped the femurs
on each leg.
In the predawn shadows, the masked shooter fled the Jamaica Plain apartment,
leaving Yazgur's roommate - a young poet - lying lifeless in his bed and
Yazgur's dog dying on the floor. The only sound was the voice of a 911 operator
echoing through a cellphone into Yazgur's ear.
''I can't hear you. I can't hear you,'' the voice said, until the cellphone
went dead.
At the hospital, doctors told Ellen Yazgur that her son had been shot so
thoroughly, so skillfully, that he had less than a 1 percent chance of
survival.
But in defiance of those predictions, as if out of spite for the attacker
himself, Yazgur survived.
Now, as he prepares to testify in October against the medical student and
former Israeli Army sniper charged with the March 2 shootings, Yazgur is
rebuilding himself, bone by bone, hoping that his body's victory will translate
into another kind of triumph.
''I want to laugh in his face,'' Yazgur said of the day he will face Daniel
Mason in court. ''I just don't want to walk in there with a cast on, or roll in
in a wheelchair. I want to be standing.''
It won't be the first time he confronts Mason in court. But by now he knows
better than to expect an answer to the question of how an unremarkable traffic
dispute, the kind that happen every day, allegedly escalated over several years
into a bloodbath.
Dangerous encounter
It was Moving Day, Sept. 1, 1997, and like most streets in the college
neighborhood of Cleveland Circle, Orkney Road was clogged with moving trucks,
U-Haul vans, and Hondas with futons strapped to the roof.
Yazgur, a 5-foot-6 mountain climber who had emigrated from the Soviet Union as
a teen, was working as a mover. He double-parked his truck, and behind him, an
impatient Boston University medical student named Daniel Mason, who was also
moving, yelled out of his car that he couldn't pass.
Yazgur shouted back that he would move the truck in five minutes. But Mason, of
roughly the same height and build, got out of his car and yelled that he would
move it himself. After a quick scuffle, Mason grabbed Yazgur by the throat,
pulled out a packing knife and nearly severed his earlobe, according to police.
Mason had been arrested previously for threatening to kill a girlfriend and
beating a man in a dispute over gym equipment, and would later spend time in
jail for pressing his thumbs into the eyes of a stranger who wouldn't stop
jingling his keys while waiting in a line. For the attack on Yazgur, Mason was
convicted in 1998 of assault and battery and given a suspended sentence.
In June of 2000, a judge in a civil case ruled that Mason owed Yazgur $118,000
for the injuries. After the judge announced his ruling, Mason, who had
represented himself in court, closed his briefcase, looked over to Yazgur, and
snarled, ''You'll never see a penny,'' said Jefferson Boone, Yazgur's attorney
in the civil case.
''I expected that once he was faced with this humongous judgment that he would
do something, that he would appeal,'' said Boone.
But he didn't.
On March 1, Mason was served with an order to start paying. Before dawn the
next morning, a masked killer crept into Yazgur's apartment and methodically
shot, with exploding schrapnel bullets, every living creature he found there.
Michael Lenz, a 25-year-old graduate student at the University of Massachusetts
at Boston, died instantly from a bullet to the temple.
Yazgur, who was first shot through a closed bedroom door, eventually caught
sight of the masked shooter and clung on to consciousness long enough to call
911 and be carried to the hospital. He finally closed his eyes - some emergency
room staff thought for good - at Boston Medical Center, the same hospital where
Mason, a scrub-clad medical student, was led away in handcuffs three days
later.
Police began investigating Mason after Boone notified them of the long
simmering battle and the fact that he had just had the payment order served on
Mason.
Although Mason, now 36, had told friends he was haunted by his experiences as a
sniper in the Israeli military and had turned to medicine so he could ''save
lives rather than take them,'' prosecutors contend that his experiences in both
lines of work made him a perfect assassin, knowing exactly where to shoot to
cause the most pain.
Yazgur spent the first month in a coma that doctors induced so he would not
feel their knives removing leg muscles he'd jogged hundreds of miles to build.
Full consciousness found him in a bed at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital,
where his arms, once powerful enough to hoist himself up mountains, could
barely part the curtains of his window. The window revealed a view of the
Nashua Street Jail, where Mason sat awaiting his trial.
''You know he's in there,'' Yazgur said from his hospital bed, gesturing to a
visitor. His legs were strapped into ski-boot style braces. ''What if he's
looking out at me?''
Some of Yazgur's doctors worried about his mind. One trauma specialist said,
''He can learn to walk again, but will he learn to walk down the street again
and feel safe?'' - but Yazgur focused on his body.
And he continued to fight for full recovery. The medical system that
miraculously saved his life turned into a Kafkaesque struggle with insurers.
Yazgur fought Blue Cross Blue Shield, which he said planned to release him
early. He fought doctors who encouraged him to wait on certain procedures
because of backlogs and other reasons. He fought with the therapist who refused
to work with his barely moveable right hand, Yazgur insisting it could be
repaired.
Miraculous recovery
Nearly six months after the shooting, Yazgur walks on legs hugged by braces.
Nearly every day, he makes the several-block trek from the Fenway neighborhood
where he lives with his grandparents to his daily medical appointments. He
winces, flashing teeth that are still under construction, when he passes a
motorcycle that reminds him of the one he used to ride when he was living in
Alaska. His liver, as obstinate as the rest of him, has regenerated itself. His
hands - which have been his lifeline in all his jobs, from hauling nets of
salmon to moving heavy furniture to, just before the shooting, writing computer
programs - are now learning like an infant's how to do simple things.
''It's a total miracle,'' his mother, Ellen, said.
Despite the breathtaking achievements of a dozen different surgeons and
physicians, his body is still a work in progress, and Yazgur is far from
satisfied.
''I still have a couple dates with Mr. Scalpel,'' he joked, balancing carefully
on the stool of a local bar.
Even with leg braces, a cast, and the loss of 40 pounds, Yazgur still looks fit
as he stretches his shirt tightly over his stomach and runs a visitor's hand
over the hard plate of tissue that has formed there in the wake of many
surgeries. He wants that plate removed because now it hurts to bend, and one
day it could impede his rock-climbing.
''If they won't remove it, I'll find someone who will,'' he vowed, lisping
through the space between missing teeth. But beneath the slowly repairing
surface, there are clues that the mental recovery will take even longer. He
confesses to being consumed with anger when a passerby on a crowded street
bumps him. An innocent query about his cast makes him want to scream. The sight
of dog hair on his mother's pillow chokes him with grief, and the only request
he has made of detectives is that they return the leash of his dog, Sampson.
''I told him, `You know you are not the only victim. You also lost your
roommate,''' Yazgur's mother said. ''But I'm not sure it helps to say that.''
Meanwhile, the man Yazgur calls an assassin maintains from behind bars that he
is innocent. His lawyer, Robert Jubinville, said Thursday that so far ''nobody
can make an identification'' of the killer.
The prospect of a trial that could result in Mason's release haunts Yazgur, but
he says as long as his body is rebuilt, he can face it.
Leah Rabin
"Urthman" <urt...@usa.net> wrote in message
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> - you really need to check your sources!
>
> Archive search for the Boston Herald:
> http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/bostonherald/
Nope, they need to fix their search engine. Enter "daniel mason" in quotes and you will
come up with nothing. Still there has not been a story about this in the Herald since
March 8th which is astonishing given the players involved, or then again maybe it is not
surprising once we really know who the players involved are.
Think "Sam Shepard"
Think "Jeffery Macdonald"
So where is "Daniel Mason" in the American conscious? Well hidden.
Urthman
Probably just another meaningless nut case!
While killers come in all shapes and sizes, serial killers are usually males
of euro descent. Historically, I believe (and I could be wrong) there has
been only one black and one female serial killer.
Osama's boys, of course, are parallel killers.
Bernard
where Kn=Kills by killer number n;
bodycount=1/(1/k1 + 1/k2 + ... + 1/kn)
don't flame me, it's the drugs... they're not working
boonean...@gmail.com
Also, there was no "knife fight". Gene and two others were unloading a truck near Cleveland Circle on Moving Day. The truck was blocking the street, but was itself blocked by other U-hauls, Suburbans, pick-ups, and full sized trucks. Mason wanted to get through, regardless. He approached Gene, who said they were almost done, and couldn't move, anyhow. Mason wouldn't take this for an answer and attempted to get into the cab of the truck. When Gene attempted to restrain him, he pulled some sort of martial arts weapon, and tried to slash Gene's throat with it, resulting in several superficial cuts to the neck, and partial severance of the ear lobe. Gene fought back. At some point, Mason stomped Gene's right hand,breaking one or more bones. Gene had grabbed a table leg, but was restrained until the police got there and arrested Mason. Not a "knife fight". Gene was unarmed. Mason managed to convince a jury, somehow, that he only be convicted of simple assault and battery, as opposed to ABDW. The ADA who tried the case couldn't figure out how they could have arrived at this verdict. We spoke while awaiting the verdict in Mason's murder trial. Mason scared the shit out of all of us. My understanding, from speaking to an attorney who was briefly assigned to his mandatory appeal, that he frightened his appellate counsel to the point where he still has not filed an appeal. While awaiting trial for the murder, Mason was expelled from most of the jails in Eastern MA for fighting and assaulting other inmates and guards. My understanding was that, on the eve of his trial, he was being held at Worcester County Jail, where he assaulted his cell mate and bit off the man's nipple.
And, yeah, I still have nightmares. Mason was on his way to my house, when he was involved in a minor traffic accident, and had to get to work at Boston Medical Center, thus sparing me and my family. The Jamaica Way is not how to get from Gene's Forest Hills apartment to BMC -- Centre Street or Franklin Park, Columbia Road to Mass Ave. It is on the route to my house.
Contrary to Leah's screed, Mason was convicted and is serving consecutive life sentences, with from and afters in the State pen of cumulatively fifty years or more, plus 2 1/2 in the house for cruelty to Sampson. He's hopefully never getting out alive.
Jefferson Boone.