A 17-year-old man from Dorchester was arrested and charged for the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Kareem Garnett, Jr., who was gunned down outside 6 Cameron St. last Wednesday (Feb. 19). The suspect was charged as a juvenile, so his name has not been released. He was arraigned in Dorchester Juvenile Court on Thursday, charged with manslaughter and weapons violations.

Members of the BPD’s Youth Violence Strike Force responded to the call for shots fired around noon. On arrival, officers located Garnett, who was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Police officials say the investigation is ongoing and asked anyone with information to contact homicide detectives at 617-343-4470.
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An investigation is underway after a fatal shooting on Thursday night (Feb. 20) on Woodrow Avenue. Police responded to a report of shots fired near 89 Woodrow around 11:10 p.m. and found a man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds. The man, identified by BPD as 42-year-old Marcos Blanco, was transported to a nearby hospital where he later died. It marked the second fatal Dorchester shooting in a week, and the third this month. On Feb. 11, a 62-year-old man died after a shooting on Columbia Road.
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A man was shot and killed around 7:35 p.m. on Monday on Delhi Street at Violet Street in Mattapan. The victim — who has not been named yet— was pronounced dead at the scene, police say. The shooting happened as residents were gathered in the nearby Mildred Street School for a public meeting on cleaning up the Neponset River. It was Boston’s ninth murder in 2020, and the second in Mattapan; on Feb. 15, Hilton Clark, 18, was shot to death less than a mile away on Colorado Street.
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A 47-year-old Dorchester man was arrested on Sunday afternoon on Ashmont Hill for allegedly carrying a loaded and unlicensed handgun. David Abrain was spotted by police responding to call for a “person with a gun” around 1:55 p.m. Police said that the .40 caliber firearm was removed by officers “from the front of Abrain’s waist band.” He has been charged with violating several gun laws.
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Boston Police report the arrest of a 26-year-old Dorchester man who was allegedly trafficking heroin and packing a 9mm gun illegally on Winter Street. Drug Control officers executed a search warrant at 17 Winter St. around 1:30 p.m. last Friday. A BPD account of the search said that says that officers “recovered” a handgun “loaded with seven rounds of live ammunition, a large bag containing a substance believed to be heroin, 15 Suboxone strips, 2 digital scales, and an undisclosed amount of US Currency.” Neurel Carr was taken into custody at the scene. Police say the gun they found “had been reported stolen out of Georgia.”