BOSTON — Bullets flew on a Roxbury street Thursday night just steps from a Community Academy graduation ceremony in progress, leaving one man with a gunshot wound and sending Boston Police on a hunt for a possible second victim who has not been found.
The shooting happened at the intersection of Warren Street and Brunswick Street at around 7:20 p.m. Thursday, per Boston 25. Officers from BPD District B-2 responded to a radio call and found a man with a gunshot wound at the scene. He was transported to Boston Medical Center with injuries that police said were not believed to be life-threatening.
Just steps away, a graduation ceremony for the Community Academy — an alternative Boston Public Schools pathway program — was underway at 575 Warren Street, the Thelma D. Burns Building of Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), per NBC Boston. Parents, students and faculty were inside the building when the shots were fired across the street.
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The hunt for a second victim
Preliminary scanner traffic indicated two people had been shot. When officers swept the scene, they found only one victim. A second person — if there was one — either fled before officers arrived or the initial radio report was wrong, NBC Boston reported. Boston Police have not yet released suspect descriptions, and no arrests had been made as of Friday morning.
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A neighborhood that has had enough
The Warren Street shooting was one of three violent incidents in Boston Thursday — a stabbing in Mattapan before dawn and a knife fight outside the Boston Public Library at Copley Square hours later — in the city Mayor Michelle Wu has repeatedly called "the safest major city in the country," including in an Instagram post three days earlier.
This is a developing story.
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