BOSTON (WHDH) - BOSTON (WHDH) – The owner of a Roxbury convenience store is both heartbroken and shaken after his young clerk was shot in the head overnight.
Abdul Martin, owner of M&R convenience on Shawmut Avenue said his young employee was shot around 9:30 p.m.
” I don’t know how we are going to survive here,” Martine said through tears. “I am afraid to open the store.”
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Mary Quirk said she was inside the store on Shawmut Avenue around 9:30 p.m. when the violence unfolded.
“I heard somebody yelling,” she recalled. “I was right inside the door when they brought him out on a stretcher.”
The man, whom Quirk identified as the employee, was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to Boston police.
Quirk says the recent violence needs to stop.
“I’m disappointed. I really am,” she said. “I’ve gotten to the point where I’m scared because it was never like this around here, at least not what I saw or experienced.”
Quirk added that she is praying for the victim and hopes he is OK.
He was set to start a three-day vacation on Wednesday but, remains in the intensive care unit of a Boston hospital.
An investigation remains ongoing. Police are asking anyone with information to step forward.
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