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Monday, June 25, 2007
Boston Police worked the scene on Seaver Street in Roxbury where an 8-year-old boy was shot late Sunday. He later died at Boston Medical Center (Globe Staff/Justine Hunt)
By David Abel, GLOBE STAFF
An 8-year-old boy was shot in the abdomen and killed late Sunday when three men walked up to the front door of his Roxbury home and began shooting, police said.
Little information was available after the shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. on Seaver Street, near Franklin Park, police said.
Elaine Driscoll, a spokeswoman for the Boston Police Department, did not release the name of the boy. She said he was taken with a life-threatening wound to Boston Medical Center, where he later died.
Police did not know of a motive for the shooting, Driscoll said. No one was arrested Sunday night.
The shooting occurred on the second floor of what public records show is a public housing complex.
Carmen Cotto, a neighbor, often saw the boy catching the bus to school. "He’s a very quiet boy," she said. "It’s really sad this happened."
Residents of the four-story apartment building watched from windows Sunday night as police walked in, out, and around the building.
Four years ago, another young child, Kai Leigh Harriott, 3, was paralyzed when she was shot while sitting on a porch outside her family’s third-floor apartment in Dorchester.
When the girl took the stand last year, she forgave the man who shot her, Anthony Warren of Hyde Park, who had fired into the air.
In the summer of 2004, 11-year-old Jenry Gonzalez was shot in the chest during a Pop Warner practice in a Roxbury park. He survived.
In October 2006, two girls were injured in a drive-by shooting when bullets penetrated their house in Dorchester. The victims, 11-year-old Tamara Mair and Lakeyia Mumford, 7, sustained wounds that were not life-threatening. A bullet went through the 11-year-old’s body, while another bullet skimmed the 7-year-old’s face, relatives said.
Globe correspondent Michael Naughton contributed to this report.
Posted by the Boston Globe City & Region Desk at 02:17 AM
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