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Boston police identify three homicide victims

Print Posted by John Ellement August 31, 2010 12:26 PM

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By Globe Staff

Boston police have identified three men who became victims of homicide in the city's Dorchester, Roxbury, and Fenway/Kenmore neighborhoods this past weekend.

The spasm of deadly violence brought the total number of homicides for the year to 42. Last year at the same time, the number was 38, police said.

No arrests have been made in any of the recent killings, police said.

At about 8:43 p.m. Friday, police found a man suffering a head injury inside the building at 270 Huntington Ave. in the Fenway/Kenmore area. He was rushed to Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he later died. He has been identified as Nouri Ech-Cherqui, 51, of Boston.

Ech-Cherqui died following an altercation in a rooming house, police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said today.

At about 4 a.m. Saturday, a 45-year-old man was found in the area of 396 Seaver St. in Roxbury suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound. He was identified by police as Hayden Steven, 45, of Brooklyn, N.Y. Steven died at the Boston Medical Center. A motive for Steven's death is not known, Driscoll said.

At about 5:55 am Saturday, Mark Anthony Greene was found in the area of 61 Stratton St. in Dorchester. The 38-year-old Boston resident apparently had been shot multiple times and was rushed to Boston Medical Center where he later died. Driscoll said Greene's death was connected to a party celebrating the Caribbean Festival, but no further information was currently available.

Driscoll said people with information about both the Seaver Street and Stratton Street homicides are not cooperating with police. "We are having a tough time with cooperation in both the Stratton and Seaver street homicides,'' she said.

And at about 9:45 p.m. Saturday, a 23-year-old man was found in the area of 970 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester, suffering from what appeared to be gunshot wound. He was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he later died, police said. The identity of the fourth victim has not been released.

Police asked anyone with information to contact homicide detectives at 617-343-4470. People wanting to assist anonymously can call the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1(800)494-TIPS or text the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463).