Spate of shootings hit Roxbury, Dorchester
Four people were shot last night in separate outbursts of violence in Roxbury and Dorchester.
The first shooting happened on Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury about 9:45 p.m. when a man on a bicycle fired multiple times at a woman, striking her in the back and leg, according to police Capt. Robert Ciccolo.
The gunman then fled down Shawmut toward the Dudley Square MBTA station. The victim, whose injuries were not lifethreatening, was taken to Boston Medical Center.
Minutes later and several blocks away, a man was shot in the leg on Cedar Street in Roxbury. His injuries are also not life-threatening.
Then about 10:30 p.m., cops in Dorchester were called to a double shooting on Glendale Street. Two men and a woman at the scene identified themselves as family of one of the victims. They said he is a 58-year-old barber who also works at Boston Medical Center and he was shot inside his apartment. A police officer told the man’s family he was grazed in the head but was expected to live.
There was no immediate information on the second victim’s identity, but police said the injuries to both were not life-threatening.
Police had a man in handcuffs at the scene, and kept him there as the crime scene expanded to include parts of Hancock Street. At one point a fire department ladder truck was brought in so officers could search the roof of a market on Hancock Street.
Residents said they heard dozens of gunshots and believed there had been a gunfight.
“It went on for a while,” a woman at the scene said. “It sounded like 24 or 25 shots.”