CHELSEA, MASS. (WHDH) - One person was hurt and four people were taken into custody Monday in connection with a pair of shootings in Chelsea, officials said.
Chelsea Police Chief Keith Houghton in a statement said the first shooting happened near 8:40 a.m. on Fifth Street after a juvenile was involved in an altercation with a second juvenile.
Emergency crews brought one of the juveniles to Massachusetts General Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Officers arrested the second juvenile, a 16-year-old boy, in connection with the incident.
Roughly 30 minutes after the shooting on Fifth Street, Houghton said officers responded to another report of shots fired on Washington Avenue.
Houghton said officers arrested three people and recovered three guns in connection with the second shooting. There were no reported injuries.
Police placed crime scene tape around both shooting scenes. Bullet casings could be seen on the sidewalk at one spot.
While the investigation continued, witnesses described their experiences.
“We saw what was happening and the cops were on the scene quick,” said Joneal Brown. “They were here quickly.”
“After they cordoned off the scene, they started looking around basically for evidence,” said Mitch Severt, who was working with a production crew shooting a movie Monday morning.
“Ironically, while we were shooting a movie, it did seem like a scene out of a movie,” Severt said.
Houghton said Chelsea High School was briefly placed on lockdown as a result of the shootings. The lockdown had been lifted as of around 12 p.m. and school activities were proceeding as scheduled.
Houghton described both shooting investigations as “fluid and ongoing” as of around 2 p.m., saying detectives were working to determine whether the shootings were related.
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