Police investigate shooting on Woodrow Ave; two other shots-fired incidents reported

A series of shots-fired incidents have been recorded by Boston Police over the past week, including one on Thursday night in which a person was wounded by gunfire on Woodrow Avenue in Dorchester. In two other reported incidents, property damage was noted, but no one was apparently injured.

Thursday night’s shooting happened around 11:15 p.m. on the 200-block of Woodrow, according to a police report.

When officers arrived, they were told that a male victim had already been transported to an area hospital with gunshot wounds that were non-life-threatening. Ballistic evidence was located on the scene.

No arrests were reported as of Friday afternoon and the investigation is ongoing.

The night before— Wed., March 26 at 8:28 p.m.— officers responded to a ShotSpotter activation in the 600 block of Walk Hill Avenue in Mattapan. Officers found no one with any injuries, and no arrests have been made. They did locate ballistic evidence on the scene, with bullets going into a home on Fottler Road, the BPD account said.

In a third incident, around 2:15 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, a woman looking to park near her home off of Greenwood Street in Dorchester reported that an unknown person opened fire on her vehicle. The ballistics hit the side of her car, and careened into a home down the street, but she was not injured, according to a BPD account.

Police noted a ShotSpotter activation for nine rounds fired at 2:18 a.m. near the corner of Greenwood and Fowler Avenue. A large contingent of police rushed to the scene and found ballistic evidence on a porch in the 20th block of Greenwood. A sedan parked in front of a neighboring house had bullet holes in the passenger side door, and the home next to it also had bullet holes in it.

A police report suggested that residents who were asleep inside the home had no idea of what had happened, but upon further investigation officers found multiple bullet holes in the walls of the home, with a mirror shattered from a bullet and a spent bullet found on a bathroom floor.

The incident remains under investigation.


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