Fans' celebration in Boston turns deadly



A rally is planned for Tuesday.
BOSTON (AP) -- New England Patriots fans turned rowdy after their team's Super Bowl victory, flipping cars and lighting small fires as thousands swarmed the streets. One person was killed when a driver backed his sport utility vehicle into a group of revelers.
The accident happened near Northeastern University. The person who died was believed to be a 21-year-old college student, and three others were injured, one critically, acting Boston Police Commissioner James Hussey said Monday.
One of those injured was a Boston police officer whose injuries were not life threatening, police said.
The driver, Stanley Filoma, 24, of Boston, sped off, but was arrested a short distance away and was scheduled to be arraigned on charges including vehicular homicide, drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident, Hussey said. There were three arrests in the Northeastern area.
College-aged fans vandalize
In Kenmore Square, near Fenway Park, college-aged fans thronged the streets around garbage fires. A local TV station reported that one of its vans was vandalized, and the crew had be escorted from the area by police.
"Unfortunately, there were those who used this event as an excuse to break laws and destroy property," Hussey said.
In the city's Allston neighborhood, home to many college students and nightclubs, firefighters hosed down revelers in hopes of dispersing the crowd.
Police did not immediately provide information about arrests. Crowds had dispersed by about 1:30 a.m.
The city plans a noontime rally Tuesday at City Hall Plaza, where two years ago about 1.2 million fans celebrated the Patriots' Super Bowl win over the St. Louis Rams.
At the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, police in riot gear cleared a crowd of hundreds of fans in the Southwest residential area after they set a fire and refused to disperse.