BOSTON (WHDH) - One person is dead and another is injured after a shooting inside a Dorchester barbershop Monday afternoon, according to the Boston Police Department.
At around 12:55 p.m., officers responded to a call for a shooting at the Exclusive Barbershop & Salon at 184 Washington St., police said. Upon arrival, emergency crews found two customers shot, including one with life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Both men were taken to the hospital, where the man with life-threatening injuries was pronounced dead, police said.
The man’s grandfather recalled warning his family about street violence just a day before his grandson was killed.
“I said, ‘You don’t want to lose your son to the street,'” Renier Thompson said.
The other man has non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to survive, according to authorities.
Police believe the shooting was not a random attack and are asking for the public’s help in the investigation.
Thompson described his late grandson fondly.
“He was a good kid. Skinny. Not threatening. If you looked at him, you wouldn’t be scared of him,” Thompson said. “He looked like a baby in the face, but lately he got in with the wrong crowd.”
No arrests have been made.
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