BOSTON (WHDH) - Police are investigating three separate shooting scenes in Roxbury after a violent Fourth of July left at least one person dead and three hospitalized.
Officers could be seen scouring a vehicle in the area of Seaver Street and Humboldt Avenue early Monday morning, where evidence markers lined the roadway. One person who was shot and then struck by a vehicle near the scene was later pronounced dead, police said.
A woman who witnessed the deadly incident says the violence took her by surprise.
“It was never an argument. It was never a fight,” she recalled. “Someone was saying run, there was gunshots.”
The victim was likely struck by a car that was being driven by a frightened witness, not the shooter, according to Boston police.
There were three other non-fatal shootings reported in the city overnight.
Boston police say a preliminary investigation of the incidents determined:
- 12:10 a.m. — A shooting victim from Wheatland Avenue walked into Boston Medical Center with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound around 12:10 a.m.
- 1:48 a.m. — Officers respond to shooting in the area of 54 Hollander St., find one person suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
- 1:53 a.m. — Officers respond to a shooting in the area of 198 Harold St., find one person suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
- 3:23 a.m. — Officers respond to a report of a person shot and then struck by a motor vehicle at the intersection of Seaver and Humboldt and pronounce the victim dead.
“You never know what’s going to happen when you go out to the store,” one shaken resident said of the violence in the neighborhood. “We have children in our neighborhood get shot, we have innocent people who get shot sometimes by stray bullets.”
Others who live in the city say gunshots during the Fourth of July cause confusion and stress.
“You can’t tell the difference between a gunshot and a firework because they all sound the same,” another resident said.
Anyone with information on the shootings is urged to contact Boston police.
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