U.S. attorney's office agrees to investigate Bodden shooting

U.S. attorney's office agrees to investigate Bodden shooting

The United States Attorney's office has agreed to investigate the police shooting of Ricky Bodden, a Dorchester resident who was gunned down in December during a police chase.

"We are agreeing to an investigation," said Samantha Martin, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office.

Bodden's mother and a coalition of activists who met with reporters after meeting with the US attorneys last week said that inconsistencies in the police version of events and the district attorney's refusal to consider the account of a key eye witness cast doubt on the internal investigation conducted by the police …