Two people were shot in Boston on Saturday, marking one of a number of violent incidents to occur in the city this week, police said.
Authorities responded around 9:34 p.m. to a report of a shooting at 44 Copeland St. in Roxbury, Officer Stephen McNulty, a Boston Police Department spokesman, told MassLive.
The victims included a man and a woman. The man, who was found shot at the scene, was taken to a local hospital. The woman went to the hospital herself, according to McNulty.
Both the man and the woman suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening, the officer said.
Police did not disclose the ages of the victims, nor did they say what events transpired prior to the shooting.
Officers noted there were multiple violent incidents in Boston on Saturday, the Fourth of July, and previously during the week.
A 22-year-old man was arrested early Sunday morning after a woman was fatally shot near 37 Stonehurst St. in Dorchester overnight Saturday, the Boston Police Department said in a press release.
A Dorchester boy was shot and killed Thursday night, according to a statement from the department. Officers were responding to a call about fireworks or possible shots fired near 39 Mount Pleasant Ave. in Roxbury when they found 15-year-old Xhavier Rico with life-threatening injuries.
Rico was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the statement said.
A short time after Rico was hospitalized, two men went to local hospitals on their own to be treated for gunshot wounds that were not considered life-threatening, according to police.
The Boston Globe reported that Mayor Martin J. Walsh and police officials pleaded with people to stop the violence ahead of the holiday weekend.
“As we head into this weekend, I’m asking people involved in violence in the city of Boston, put your guns down,” Walsh said during a press conference late Thursday night after the shooting of Rico, according to the Globe.
Another Dorchester resident, 22-year-old Justin Cannady, was also shot and killed Thursday night.
Officers have since taken a suspect into custody, whom they identified Friday as 35-year-old Rafael Santiago. The Malden man, police claimed, was found at the scene of the shooting with a revolver in his hand.
On Friday, officers responded to a radio call shortly after 11 p.m. of a person shot in the area of 40 Dabney St. in Roxbury, authorities said.
“On arrival, officers located an adult male victim suffering from apparent gunshot wounds,” the department said in another statement. “The victim was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.”
The same night, roughly 30 minutes before the Dabney Street shooting was reported, officers fielded another call about a fight near 42 Theodore St., police said.
Authorities were not able to find the people involved in the fight as the suspects had fled the scene, witnesses told officers, according to police.
Shortly after the fight was reported, a victim walked into the emergency of a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. The person later died, authorities said.
Around the time of the shooting and the lethal fight on Friday, a person was fatally stabbed near 205 Adams St. in Dorchester, according to a press release from the Boston Police Department.
As of Thursday, Boston police reported, there were two nonfatal shootings, two nonfatal stabbings and one homicide. However, those numbers have changed significantly in the past two days.
The department has urged anyone with information related to its investigations to call Boston police homicide detectives at (617) 343-4470.
Community members wishing to assist investigations anonymously can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS or by texting the word “TIP” to CRIME (27463).
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