Something newsworthy happened at King Arthur's Motel & Lounge.

This "motel and lounge" near the New England Produce Center, scene of a fatal shooting last night, was always one of my favorite places to bike past. The parking lot seems to always be full of mob guys in Lincolns, and the parking lot of the Dunkin next door always contains most of the on-duty Chelsea PD cruisers.

Read this awful Globe article about the shootout. My favorite part comes at the end--a description of a 1982 brawl in which marauding, off-duty, townie cops beat 13 people (one to death) with clubs and tire irons!