Thursday, 4:30 PM
Man shot on Mattapan street
By John R. Ellement, Globe staff
Boston police are investigating the shooting of a man in his forties who was attacked in a small cul-de-sac in a normally quiet section of Mattapan.
The man was shot around 6 a.m. on Verndale Street, a small cul-de-sac of four single-family homes running off of Mary Knoll Street.
Police have closed Mary Knoll and currently are investigating. The man was rushed to Boston Medical Center with what were believed to be life-threatening injuries.
On Verndale a dozen evidence cones have been placed by police on the street, and one rests on a white van whose engine is running that also has a flat tire.
One Verndale Street resident who asked that her name not be used because the shooting is unsolved said she was awakened by the sound of at least five gunshots.
She said her husband called 911 and that in the 10 years they've been living here, nothing has happened anywhere close to this.
The woman said the victim collapsed at the corner of Verndale and Mary Knoll.
She said she did not know the name of the person who had been shot. Police are currently checking the garage of a single-family cape house with red wood trim at 5 Verndale Street.
