A Shooting In The Middle Of The Day Claimed The Life Of A 14-Year-Old Boy In Roxbury.

Authorities and local clergy have decried the recent increase in violence in the city after the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy in Roxbury on Monday. Another juvenile was wounded in the shooting.

According to audio of a news conference at the scene that was provided to the Globe, at around noon, Boston police received a report of gunshots at an apartment on 2990 Washington St.

According to Miller, police discovered a man shot multiple times inside a residence. Officer Andre Watson said Monday night that the victim was taken to a nearby hospital but later died.

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Miller stated that police discovered a second male victim on Cobden Street who had also been shot. The second victim required hospitalisation as well, but his injuries were not thought to be fatal. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, neither the perpetrators nor the victims had been identified.

The boy, only 14, was the third child to lose their life to gun violence in Boston this year. The first murder of 2019 occurred on January 2 when 16-year-old Jucelena Gomes was shot and killed near Codman Square in Dorchester. Curtis Ashford Jr., age 15, was fatally shot on a side street in Dorchester, close to Franklin Park, on July 27.

A week ago at 9:30 in the morning, a student, age 18, was shot and wounded by another student following an altercation outside of Dorchester’s Jeremiah E. Burke High School. Three weeks prior to the shooting, there had been an assault at the high school involving a knife.

“Any incident of violence in Boston is unacceptable and the trauma ripples through our communities,” Mayor Michelle Wu said.

When asked about his organization’s efforts to combat violence, Wu said, “We are working relentlessly alongside our public safety officials and community partners to support youth development, safe streets, and violence intervention.”

“I know our residents and partners share the urgency for public health and safety, and this calls for a whole community approach.”

Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden held a press conference on Monday, where he said there are too many guns on the streets and asked for the help of the community in reducing violence.

The number of shootings that occurred during the daytime was unprecedented, he remarked. There seems to be an increasing number of them, and we are worried about the rise in careless gun use in public during the day.

A senior pastor at Dorchester’s Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church, the Rev. Miniard Culpepper, has expressed concern about the escalation of youth violence.

Culpepper said in a phone interview on Monday night, “Obviously, you look at what happened at the Burke last week, and at what’s going on now.” At first, we ask for prayers for the family of the teen who was killed. However, the youth violence that we are witnessing in the city also requires a concerted effort to respond to it.

As an example of how to approach the issue at hand, he cited the coordinated efforts made in the late 1990s to reduce the homicide rate among Boston’s youth.

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“The whole city has to come together; the mayor, the police commissioner, the faith community, the Public Health Commission, the street workers, the pastors, the activists,” Culpepper said.

“It’s not like this is the first time we’ve seen this. But now is the time for united action; we must respond purposefully.

The Globe previously reported that crime decreased in Boston in 2021, bucking national trends. According to the Major Cities Chiefs Association, the number of aggravated assaults in the city was up slightly in the first half of this year, but the number of homicides, rapes, and robberies is still going down.

Sergeant Detective John Boyle, a spokesman for the police department, has said that they believe Monday’s shootings to be an isolated incident.

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