Woman gunned down in Dot
Fatal shooting Monday night brings year’s homicide total to 47 in Hub
Eight people were slain in Boston in a span of 10 days, including a 24-year-old woman police said was fatally shot Monday night sitting in a car outside an apartment building on Charles Street in Dorchester.
Her death by multiple gunshots, police said, came at approximately 9:35 p.m. raised the city's 2018 homicide toll to 47 — four more slay victims than on the same date last year.
Though his frustration was apparent, Mayor Martin J. Walsh noted yesterday the city is not grappling with a situation where people are being randomly gunned down in the street.
"Most of these have a story behind it," Walsh said. "When you have a targeted homicide, it's very difficult to stop those. It's very difficult to try and get ahead of those."
It was not immediately clear whether the woman was targeted or if anyone else was in the vehicle with her prior to officers arriving on scene.
"We're looking into the past histories of some of these folks that have been involved in these shootings — the people who have shot and the people who have been shot," Walsh said.
"Again, these are eight incidents that we are not happy about. It's a pretty tough situation when you think about how do we get to the bottom of it.”
Police have confiscated 581 firearms this year, according to department spokesman officer James Kenneally.
"We're taking guns off the street, that's not the issue," Walsh said. "The issue is too much access to guns.”