Terrifying surveillance video captures Dorchester shooting — 4th shooting in city in 4 days
By David Bienick, Matt Reed
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BOSTON (WCVB) — Surveillance video captured a shooting Tuesday that injured one person in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood, and was the fourth shooting in as many days in Boston.
Boston police officers responded to the area of 25 Dacia St. in Dorchester following a radio call for a person shot.
“We heard the shots. It was super loud. It just went off, like a bunch of shots like nonstop,” one neighbor said.
A resident whose cameras captured the shooting said three people were in a parked car waiting for another vehicle. When the vehicle pulled up, the three people, who were carrying guns, jumped out of the car and fired at least 16 shots. It appears that one of the shooters was struck. He grabbed his leg, fell to the ground and limped away.
Officers canvassed the area for victims, witnesses, suspects and ballistic evidence, officials said. Officers recovered shell casings and projectile fragments and saw ballistic damage to multiple structures and a vehicle in the area.
Officers were told that a gunshot victim had been taken to an area hospital and is currently listed in critical condition, but is expected to survive.
“My roommates were texting and saying that it was right by our house. That they heard the gunshots and saw some of the cleanup last night, and yeah, I was kind of shocked,” one resident said.
Boston police investigators were seen placing evidence markers in an area roped off with crime scene tape. No arrests have been made.
One neighbor said she often sees signs of drug-dealing in the neighborhood.
“There’s always people hanging over there and you know drugs and all that,” she said.
The shooting is the latest in a string of incidents under investigation in the city.
On Sunday, a woman suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting on Kingsdale Street as shots rang out on Mother’s Day. A man was injured in the shooting.
That shooting happened less than 24 hours after another double shooting in Dorchester. Police said two people were shot Sunday at 2 a.m. on Geneva Avenue.
Both were taken to a hospital, and their conditions have not been released.
On Saturday night, Michael Jacob, 30, of Randolph, was shot and killed on Woolson Street in Mattapan.
No arrests have been made in any of the three shootings, police said.
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