Grandmother shot and killed
Was just sitting on her porch; top leaders swear shooter will be found
A grandmother in her mid-70s was shot and killed in Dorchester while sitting on her porch in a slaying the mayor, police and the DA vowed will be solved.
“We will find you and hold you accountable,” Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said at the scene on Olney Street on Saturday night.
“It is just heart-wrenching this elderly woman can’t sit on her front porch without bullets riddling her,” Rollins added as neighbors cried out in the background.
Superintendent-in-Chief Gregory Long, the city’s acting police commissioner, said at the scene units were called to Olney Street at 6 p.m. for a person shot. When police arrived, they found the victim suffering from gunshot wounds.
The grandmother, in her 70s, had been sitting on her porch as was shot when gunfire broke out on the street in front of her residence. The woman was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Long said he’s urging anyone with information about the shooter or shooters to call police.
Acting Mayor Kim Janey said at the scene it is “absurd a grandmother can’t sit on her porch without the worry of gunfire.” She added the trauma team was at the scene to assist with family, friends and neighbors.
“It is outrageous and heartbreaking that a woman in her 70s can’t sit on her porch on a warm evening and this is the result,” Long added.
Rollins said her office will stay on the case until it is solved, and she said the pandemic won’t delay justice. She added the city’s Shotspotter gunfire detector is going off too much and this neighborhood “deserves to be as safe as other neighborhoods.”