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Two shot in Boston's South End as suspects in black hoodies flee — stray bullet floods apartment, family of four left homeless for the night

Monday, March 30, 2026•
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MDN Staff
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Two shot in Boston's South End as suspects in black hoodies flee — stray bullet floods apartment, family of four left homeless for the night

Two people were shot near Kendall Street Sunday night. A stray round hit a building, burst a pipe, and left a mother and three children without a home for the night.

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BOSTON — A double shooting on Shawmut Avenue in Boston's South End Sunday night left two people wounded and a family without a home — after a stray bullet tore through a third-floor window, ruptured a sprinkler pipe, and flooded an apartment.
Boston Police and Boston Fire both responded to Shawmut Ave near Kendall Street just after 7:15 PM. Officers found two victims with gunshot wounds and applied tourniquets to both before EMS transported them to area hospitals. Their injuries were later confirmed non-life-threatening. ShotSpotter had already detected the rounds and triggered an alert in the area.
According to @StacoS, a well-known Boston scanner account, and reports on the Citizen app, suspects were identified as three males between 18 and 20 years old, all wearing black hoodies, last seen heading toward Melnea Cass Boulevard. One was described as notably shorter than the others, wearing a hoodie with large white lettering officers could not make out.

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A follow-up update confirmed the first victim was found at Kendall Street and Shawmut Ave, with the second located further down near Shawmut and Northampton Street — the two shot at separate spots along the same block.
While officers were still on scene, another consequence of the shooting emerged. One of the rounds had struck a third-floor window in a nearby building, rupturing a sprinkler pipe. Firefighters and officers evacuated the building as water damage spread. A mother and her three children were among those displaced. BPD reached out to the Red Cross to arrange accommodations for the family.
This is a developing story and this report is based on scanner traffic reported by @StacoS on X and updates from the Citizen app. Details may be updated as BPD releases official information.

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