Teen slain, man hurt in car chase

A teenager was shot to death and another man was wounded yesterday afternoon when the car they were riding in was riddled with bullets from a vehicle chasing them on a residential street in Mattapan, according to police and witnesses.

Emanuel Clark-Clayton, 17, was shot in his torso and pronounced dead at Brigham and Women's Hospital, police and a friend of the victim said. Brandon Henderson, 23, was shot in his face, shoulder, and arm. He was treated at Boston Medical Center and is expected to recover, family members said last night.

Clark-Clayton is the city's fifth homicide victim of the year. All have died in the past seven days.

The pair fled their burgundy Mercury Mystique on Clarkwood Street as shots were fired by one or more men in another vehicle, according to witnesses. Police did not identify a third man in the car with the two victims. He was not wounded, they said.

Clark-Clayton was found on the ground near the car he was riding in on Clarkwood Street. Henderson was found on Norfolk Street near Clarkwood, police said.

A man who identified himself as Henderson's uncle said last night that he heard shots soon after Henderson, Clark-Clayton, and a third man whom he did not identify left his home, not far from where the shooting occurred. Henderson's mother, the uncle's sister, called her son on his cellphone to see whether he was all right, he said.

"My sister called him on the cell, and he's like, 'Someone shot me in my jaw,' " he said last night.

The uncle said he ran to the scene and found his nephew. Clark-Clayton, a close family friend, was around the corner. "I watched him die," he said.

Mikka McQueen, 30, who lives in a house on Clarkwood Street across from where the victim's car came to a stop, said that she, her husband, and her 14-year-old nephew saw the Mercury turn onto their street chased by a white sport utility vehicle.

McQueen said shots were fired from the SUV toward the Mercury as both vehicles traveled on Clarkwood Street. After the Mercury crashed into the SUV, she said, several men got out of the SUV and continued firing at the other car.

Suzanne Smalley of the Globe staff contributed to this report. Scott Goldstein can be reached at sgoldstein@globe.com.