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Yesterday in Boston: a carload of teens jumps out and starts spraying on Dorchester Avenue, MBTA passenger slashed in the neck at Nubian Square — and it's not even summer

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Yesterday in Boston: a carload of teens jumps out and starts spraying on Dorchester Avenue, MBTA passenger slashed in the neck at Nubian Square — and it's not even summer

Yesterday brought a daytime carload of teens spraying gunfire on Dot Ave and a man slashed across the neck on the MBTA. If that is the preview, the summer is going to be a long one.

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BOSTON — Ah, the safest major city in America. Summer approaching, the weather, the Cape, the long evenings on Castle Island and the Esplanade.
If yesterday is a preview of what is coming, it is going to be a long summer. The kind where bullets fly in broad daylight and the knife comes out on the platform of the T.
Just after 3 p.m. Friday on Dorchester Avenue near Mt. Vernon Street, a carload of teens jumped out and started spraying gunfire onto the sidewalk. A teenage boy walking down the street caught a bullet to the foot. The shooters peeled away. The wounded teen, bleeding, was helped into a nearby pizza shop — the Avenue Grille & Pizzeria at the corner of Dorchester Ave and Mt. Vernon — by employees as neighbors poured out of their houses. The Friday attack was first reported by the Dorchester Reporter.
"I thought it was a truck backfiring," a longtime resident told Boston 25 at the scene. "They looked like young kids. I've lived here 30 years. We've never had anything happen here."
She was wrong about one thing. Something is happening here now.
Hours later, after dark, the violence migrated to the MBTA. Just after 8 p.m. at Nubian Square station in Roxbury, a man was slashed across the neck by a maniac wielding "an unknown object," police said — during what officers called a "verbal dispute." The victim staggered, bleeding from the throat, toward Transit Police officers inside the station. They worked to stop the bleeding. The slasher was already gone, dissolved into the dusk.
Two attacks. Five hours. One spring Friday.

Yet another. And another.

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The Friday attacks did not happen in a vacuum. The shootings have not stopped for weeks.
Mother's Day weekend — a man shot dead on Woolson Street in Mattapan. Hours later, two men ambushed by gunfire on scooters on Geneva Avenue in Dorchester. Hours after that, another double shooting in Dorchester, a woman left fighting for her life.
Monday — a paroled cop-shooter sprays roughly 60 rifle rounds at civilian traffic on Memorial Drive, putting two innocent men in the ICU.
Tuesday — another shooting in Dorchester. A man left in critical condition.
Tuesday night — another shooting in Roxbury. A man shot four times — twice in the left arm, twice in the chest.
Friday afternoon — the carload of teens. The teen shot in the foot. The pizza shop.
Friday night — the slasher at Nubian Square.
And the calendar still says May.
The traditional Boston violence season — the long arc from Fourth of July fireworks through Labor Day cookouts — has not even started.
A Roxbury resident put it in four words near another crime scene this week:
"It's rough right now."
Yesterday made it worse.
This is a developing story.

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