BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston police surrounded a restaurant in Dorchester Thursday evening after a shooting victim showed up, begging for help.
Gunfire rang out in front of Morton’s pizza shop on Morton Street around 4 p.m. — striking the window of a beauty salon and the victim.
As witnesses clambered to safety, the victim made his way to a Jamaican restaurant on Norfolk Street, located about half a mile away from the original scene.
The victim was transported to a hospital with injuries are considered to be life-threatening.
Police say they first learned of this shooting from a report coming off a shot spotter device.
Authorities have not yet identified the shooter.
Those who work in the area now say they are fed up.
“Every day. This is what they do. This is like Live at the OK Corral,” one man said.
In July, the pizza shop was struck with three bullets.
One went through the front window and nearly struck clerk Lisette Santana.
“The glass hit my forehead,” she said. She too is tired of the shootings.
“Does somebody need to die for somebody to do something,” she asked. She is calling on police to take action.
“Actually make something happen because people are going to die.”
The incident remains under investigation.
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