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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
By Globe Staff
Boston police are investigating two separate shootings this afternoon that left one man dead and sent another victim to a hospital with a gunshot wound in the back.
Police in Roxbury are searching for a suspect who shot and killed a man near the corner of Devon Street and Columbia Road at about 3:30 p.m. Deputy Police Superintendent Rafael Ruiz told reporters at the scene that a fight outside a store turned deadly when someone pulled a gun and shot a man several times.
Police did not release the name of the victim. Relatives said the man was 22 years old and had a 4-year-old daughter.
Officers chased a man for several blocks on Devon Street but lost contact with the suspect, Ruiz said. The victim’s body was covered with a white sheet. Friends and family who came to the murder scene to grieve were comforted by the Reverend William Dickerson from the Greater Love Tabernacle Church.
About 45 minutes later in Dorchester, a man was shot in the back on Harvard Street and rushed to Boston Medical Center. The victim, who police did not identify, is expected to survive.
Posted by the Boston Globe City & Region Desk at 04:06 PM
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