article_snippet: Moynihan was attacked by West after Moynihan approached the driver's door of a car that Moynihan and five other gang task force members had pulled over following reports of shots fired in the area, police said.
article_snippet: Emergency response: Moynihan was attacked by West after Moynihan approached the driver's door of a car that Moynihan and five other gang task force members had pulled over following reports of shots fired in the city's Roxbury area, it is said .
article_snippet: Moynihan was later revealed to have had a violent criminal past.
article_snippet: he was later revealed to have had a violent criminal past .