2 injured by shots fired at party

Gunshots fired late last night at an outdoor party in the backyard of a house on Bowdoin Street in Dorchester injured two people, police said.

Police did not have details about the victims, including their conditions, late last night.

One of the bullets pierced the pane of a bathroom window in a nearby house, narrowly missing two boys on their way to bed.

"It could have killed my grandkids," said Hazel Hicks, who was babysitting the boys, ages 10 and 13, and was sitting on the front porch of her Holiday Street home when the shooting occurred about 10 p.m.

Neither boy was injured. The 10-year-old said he hid under the bed with his pillow when he heard the shot.

The bullet left holes in the glass of the window and in the wall of a hallway. Hicks said her grandsons were in the hall, just a few feet from where the bullet struck.

Sergeant Detective Bill Robertson said at the scene that the bullet appeared to be from a 9mm gun. "They were very lucky," he said of the boys. "This could have been a very bad situation."

Regina Hicks, the mother of the boys, heard about the shooting and rushed to her mother's house. She said she felt angry and scared. "This is not happening to people in power, to their kids," she said. The street violence is "traumatizing our kids."