A candle memorialized Emanuel Lopes Pires, 20, who was fatally shot. Tazmyn Soares, 18, was killed about 3 miles away the same day.
(Dina Rudick/Globe Staff)
To a longtime clerk at Geneva Grocery in Dorcester, the bloodshed in front of the store Friday was just part of the life he has known there for a decade.
But to a newcomer on the street, the shooting death of a man outside her home was unacceptable.
"We are never around here because it is too crazy," said Jeanne Dominguez, a mother of three who recently moved her family from New York to Geneva Avenue. "I'm leaving."
Dominguez was making plans yesterday to move out of her apartment two days after a young man - identified yesterday by police as Emanuel Lopes Pires, 20, of Dorchester - was gunned down.
"I was at the window and heard the shots. So I looked out and saw him," she said.
Lopes Pires was a tenth of a mile from his home when he was fatally wounded in front of the grocery store about 5:24 p.m. Police say he died at Boston Medical Center.
Cristian Guerrero, a 12-year employee of the convenience store, told the Globe on Saturday that he was helping customers when he heard about a half dozen shots.
Guerrero looked out a window and saw people scrambling down the street. He went outside and saw two men who had just purchased bottles of juice at the store. One was bleeding in a car parked in front of the store and the other was lying on the sidewalk, unharmed.
Yesterday evening, Lopes Pires's parents declined to comment through a translator.
At the grocery, Guerrero's brother, Rudy, 35, a clerk of 10 years, was sad but matter-of-fact in tone about yet another episode of deadly violence that played out in front of his store. It was the third deadly shooting outside the store since 1990.
"It's always crazy around here, so it doesn't surprise you," Guerrero said. "I've seen that many times."
This time, however, Guerrero heard the shots, ran from the back of the store, and brought a woman leaving back inside so she would not get hurt, he said.
"I heard the shots - a bunch of them, a lot of them," Guerrero said. "And I called 911."
Guerrero said he did not know the young man who was killed.
Police also identified the victim in a second shooting Friday evening that took place about 3 miles away, four hours after Lopes Pires was shot.
Tazmyn Soares, 18, of Everett was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds on Cedar Street in Roxbury, police said. He died at a hospital.
Neighbors said he was on the stairs of a townhouse apartment in the Fort Hill development, where police found him about 9:26 p.m. His relatives could not be reached.
The killings ended a 27-day stretch without a homicide and brought Boston's count to 66 for the year, compared with 72 at the same time last year.
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