A man is shot in the South End

A man was shot last night in Boston's South End, the third shooting in the last week in the diverse neighborhood.

The unidentified male was shot at about 9:50 p.m. and rushed to Boston Medical Center with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. No arrests were made.

A college-bound teenager was shot dead in a South End park Monday, and a teenager and a young man were shot near a South End convenience store the day before.

Boston police are in the midst of fighting an upswing in gun crimes and murder, with the homicide count at 36 this year compared with 27 in 2005, when murders reached a decade high.

Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan have tended to account for most murders and shootings, and that is the case this year. Still, in the wake of the recent shooting, South End residents and business owners have expressed concern. Boston police say they are working to combat crime in all neighborhoods.

``We're concerned about crime everywhere," said Boston police spokesman John Boyle.

At the Pembroke Street shooting site last night, just off Columbus Avenue, patrons from nearby restaurants and bars looked from behind yellow police tape as officers worked the crime scene.

The violence claimed Abdirauf Abdullahi , 19, on Monday, who had survived civil unrest in his native Somalia only to be gunned down in Peters Park on Shawmut Avenue. He was just three weeks from leaving for college in West Virginia. Police arrested and charged 15-year-old Eloy Antonio Sierra of Randolph with murder.

The day before Abdullahi's murder, a 12-year-old boy and 24-year-old man were shot outside a convenience store on Massachusetts Avenue. Neither injur was life-threatening, and no arrests have been made.