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ANOTHER SHOOTING: Drive-by gunman lights up a Roxbury block with 15 rounds, leaves one man down in the street

Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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MDN Staff
ANOTHER SHOOTING: Drive-by gunman lights up a Roxbury block with 15 rounds, leaves one man down in the street

Eleven shots, then four more — Highland Park's nightly gunfire returned Tuesday night, with a parked car hit and one man rushed to the hospital. Scanner watchers tagged it #HBlockland.

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ROXBURY — A drive-by gunman opened up on a Roxbury block in the Highland Park section Tuesday night, leaving a man down in the street and a parked car shot up — the latest burst of gunfire in a neighborhood that has not had a quiet night in weeks.
Boston police responded to Cheney Street around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday to find a male victim suffering from a gunshot wound, NBC10 Boston reported. He was rushed to a Boston-area hospital; his condition has not been released. "Multiple shots were fired, with a vehicle being found nearby with ballistic damage," NBC10 said.
The Boston scanner-watch account @StacoS — a volunteer 911-monitoring page with 26,000 followers — flagged the call as it came in, putting the count at about 11 rounds, then four more, with a vehicle screeching away from Schuyler Street one block over. StacoS tagged the burst "#HBlockland #Gangland" — a reference to the long-standing Roxbury street crew federal prosecutors have targeted for years. BPD has not confirmed any gang nexus.
No arrests. No suspect description.

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A neighborhood that has not had a quiet night

The Cheney Street shooting did not happen in a vacuum. In the 24 hours before it, the same scanner volunteers logged two separate Dorchester shooting scenes — a drive-by from a silver Kia Soul that put rounds into a house on Waldeck Street around 8:34 p.m. Monday, and a full gun battle on Dacia Street near Quincy Street that touched off about 1:19 a.m. Tuesday — with 17 spent casings recovered in the road, rounds going into a house, and a victim later dumped at an emergency-room entrance by two men in a black BMW who took off running. BPD homicide detectives were activated overnight.
Roxbury itself has had no shortage of its own. On April 2, BPD officers and detectives in District B-2 arrested three men and recovered firearms at Dudley Street and Mount Pleasant Avenue after a shooting that left one man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. On April 29, BPD put out a community alert asking the public for help identifying suspects in a separate Roxbury shooting that remains unsolved.
The H-Block crew that StacoS named in Tuesday's tag has been a long-standing federal target. The crew is traditionally associated with the "H" streets — Harold, Harrishof, Holworthy, Homestead — off Humboldt Avenue, adjacent to but not on top of the Cheney–Schuyler–Maple block where Tuesday night's victim went down.

What BPD wants

The Cheney Street shooting remains under active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call Boston Police at (617) 343-4275. To submit a tip anonymously, text TIP to CRIME (27463).
This is a developing story.

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