LOWELL, MASS. (WHDH) - A shooting inside a Lowell home early Friday morning left one man dead and two people injured, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office.
Shortly after midnight, officers responded to a report of a person suffering from a gunshot wound in the lobby of an apartment building on Wilder Street, the DA’s office said. Upon arrival, police found a juvenile male who had been shot at a home nearby.
The injured teenager went to the apartment building to ask for help, according to a man who lives in the building.
“I see someone’s hand against the door right there and I walked down and it was just so bloody,” the man said.
“I ran upstairs, we got water, we’re like helping him and giving him water, and that’s when the police department came and everybody came,” he continued.
The shooting had taken place inside a home on South Walker Street, a couple blocks away, the DA’s office said.
When officers entered that home, they found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound, along with a man with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the DA. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Emergency crews took the woman to a local hospital, the office said. She was then transferred to a Boston-area hospital where she remained in critical condition Friday night, according to investigators.
Back at the Wilder Street apartment building, neighbors and first responders continued to help the boy.
“He was looking very pale. Like very, very pale. It looked like he was dying. I was trying everything to help him,” the man said. “I thought maybe someone was going to come and finish the job or something. I was really scared.”
The boy was in stable condition at a hospital as of around 5 p.m., according to the DA.
Investigators said the incident appeared to be isolated, as all three people were “known to each other.”
The shooting remains under investigation by the DA’s office, the Lowell Police Department, and the Massachusetts State Police.
Correction: The DA’s office previously announced that the woman was pronounced dead at the hospital. The office issued a correction just before 7 p.m. saying she was alive, but in critical condition.
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