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.

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.