Neighborhood shaken as police eye gang ties in Roxbury shooting
A late-night triple shooting in Roxbury Sunday night rattled residents in an incident cops are probing for possible gang ties.
Three men, believed to be in their 30s, were shot on Zeigler Street near Dudley Station about 11:10 p.m., police said. The shooting victims all were expected to survive. Cops say the incident might be “gang-related.”
Neighborhood residents yesterday said they’re fed up with the bloodshed and fear it will increase as the temperatures heat up.
“The violence is pretty bad. I don’t go out at night because of the craziness,” said Rosa Cruz, 75. Cruz, speaking in Spanish, added that some neighbors who live on first-floor residences have even more to fear because errant bullets “come and go as they please.”
A woman, who declined to give her name and only spoke through a closed front door, said she lives with her three youngadult children and she makes sure to limit their exposure outside of the home.
“I won’t even allow them out,” she said. “There needs to be more money invested in our kids’ activities. And they need more surveillance.”
Police had not announced any arrest in the case as of late yesterday.
Gunshots also rang out less than two miles away on Annunciation Road in Mission Hill.
Cops said the 11:15 p.m. Sunday shooting was unrelated to the violence on Zeigler Street.
In that incident, a victim believed to be in his 20s was shot in the foot, cops said. No arrests had been made public yesterday afternoon.
That shooting occurred at the Boston Housing Authority’s Alice Heyward Taylor Apartments, where in October 2016 a 9-year-old girl was struck when shots rang out near a birthday party. She was paralyzed, police said.
A 27-year-old suspect was later arrested in that case. But charges against him were dropped due to insufficient evidence, authorities said.