Hub police probe rash of killings
Two more slayings Friday night in city
A violent week in Boston continued overnight Friday with two more slayings and another shooting less than an hour apart.
The first killing happened about 10:30 p.m., which is when Boston Police said they received a call for a fight in the in the first block of Theodore Street in Mattapan.
The officers didn’t find a victim, but witnesses reiterated that there had been a fight — and police received a call while they were there that a man had walked into a local hospital with serious injuries. The man died at the hospital after being admitted, police said.
Then, at 11:03 p.m., cops responded to reports of a person stabbed in the 200 block of Adams
Street in Dorchester, police said. Officers found a man suffering from a stab wound; the man was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Police didn’t release more information on either man Saturday morning.
Police also said they responded to a shooting — also at 11:03 p.m. — on Dabney Street in Roxbury, where they found a man who’d suffered what appear to be non-lifethreatening wounds. Cops say they found two guns nearby, and confiscated them.
The Boston Police Department continues to investigate both cases, and encourages anyone with information to call homicide detectives at 617-343-4470, or to report anonymously by calling 1-800-494-TIPS or texting the word ‘TIP’ to 27463.
Anyone who needs the Boston Neighborhood Trauma Team can call 617-431-0125 or visit BPHC.org/ trauma for free support.
In total, at least six people have been killed, 13 non-fatally shot and nine non-fatally stabbed in Boston since last weekend, according to police logs and releases.
This comes after a violent week in Boston, amid what Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ office early Friday described as an “uptick of violence” in the city. In a 24-hour period on Thursday, three people were shot to death. Two other people were shot to death in separate killings. Rafael Santos Santiago, 35, was charged in the death of 22-year-old Justin Cannady, who authorities say he chased down multiple times in a dispute over a scooter. Someone shot 15-year-old Xhavier Rico to death and wounded two others on Mt. Pleasant Avenue in Roxbury, and 45-year-old Rashawn Washington-Clark was shot to death inside his vehicle in the area of Norfolk Street and Peacevale Road in Dorchester, according to authorities.