Dorchester man is shot several times in the head
A Dorchester man was critically injured after he was shot several times in the head while riding his bicycle yesterday afternoon, police and witnesses said.
Police described the victim as a male in his late teens or early 20s who was shot just before 4:30 p.m. near Westville and Boyd streets in Dorchester. Police did not reveal the victim's identity, but a person who said she was a friend identified him as Robbie.
The friend said that after the man was shot, he ran to a house on Boyd Street where her brother lived. Her brother called police after sitting the man down on the porch, she said.
The victim was in critical but stable condition last night at Boston Medical Center, police said.
"He was a respectful young man . . . that's all I can say," said the friend, who declined to give her name.
Police investigators marked evidence on Boyd Street with orange and green cones and entered the three-decker house on Boyd Street.
Police said they had not recovered a weapon and had not made any arrests.
As police questioned witnesses near Boyd Street, neighbors returning from work or picking their children up from Marshall Elementary School watched the police activity. Neighbors said they heard as many as five shots.
"This is an every-week occurrence," said Kevin, a neighborhood resident of two years who declined to give his last name.
The shooting took place yards away from where a Boston Police officer was shot by a gang member three weeks ago.
"There's something always going on around here," said another neighbor, who declined to give his name. "It's crazy. You think you're in Iraq." 