DORCHESTER — A juvenile girl took a bullet on Milton Avenue Wednesday night. Boston police say they found a 14-year-old boy moments later, inside a residence near the scene, standing by a basement door with a loaded 9mm ghost gun stuffed in his backpack.
It was 8:08 PM on May 6, 2026. Officers from BPD District B-3 (Mattapan) responded to a radio call for a person shot in the area of Milton Avenue, according to Boston Police. They arrived to find the juvenile female victim suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers rendered aid until Boston EMS arrived and rushed her to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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A search of the area turned up several juveniles inside a residence. Two juvenile males were standing between the rear door and the basement door, police say. One was wearing a backpack. Inside the backpack: a loaded firearm.
The gun, per BPD, was a Polymer 80-style 9mm semi-automatic pistol — black, six live rounds in the magazine. Polymer 80 is the brand at the center of America's ghost-gun debate: an unfinished receiver kit ordered online and machined into a working firearm at home. No serial number. No background check. No paper trail.
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The 14-year-old boy of Dorchester was taken into custody on the spot. He is expected to be arraigned in Dorchester District Court on charges of Delinquent to wit Carrying a Loaded Firearm without a License, Carrying a Firearm without a License, and Possession of a Large Capacity Feeding Device.
Police did not announce a connection between the gun in the backpack and the shooting itself.
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