Around 12:15 p.m.in the Stop & Shop parking lot on Calumet Street, near where it meets Huntington Avenue and Tremont Street. Boston Police report the victim was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Herald reports the man, in his 20s, was "targeted."
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Getting a bit too close for comfort.
I completely agree. I wonder
I completely agree. I wonder if this is gang-related. Not that it would make this murder less awful, but at least public support would be 100% behind mass gang arrests after this & the recent shooting next to Fenway Park.
How Far Away Is Enough For Comfort?
If it was say on the other side of the hill at Bromley Heath would you have been not as concerned?
Pretty normal human reaction.
If there are tornados in Arkansas, we're concerned. If Grandma lives in Arkansas, we're more concerned. If there are tornados in Worcester, our worries are more acute. So yes--I don't like hearing about some guy shot in mattapan at 2am but it makes me less comfortable to hear that it was at 5pm, or on my street corner, or that it was a bunch of kids at a bus stop. I'm sure there are algorithms involved but the closer it is to our own physical location and to our everyday routines, the more worried we are.
Well I do happen to live near
Well I do happen to live near Bromley Heath and I stopped walking by BH to get to Stop and Shop the day someone drove right past me on a bike with a gun in his hand. Too scary. So yes, some of us ARE concerned NO MATTER WHERE they are shooting. Pretty soon it'll be on the train in the middle of rush hour. Sickofitttt!!!
Grocery store parking lot at lunch time
That's too close for the general public IMHO
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According to the Globe:
According to the Globe:
"The shooting did not appear random, and the victim was the intended target, according to Lieutenant Detective Michael McCarthy, a police spokesman."
What if the shooter missed
his intended target, and killed someone walking by, by accident? It's not really much comfort to learn that the victim was the intended target.
FWIW
Irrational or not, I fear being randomly robbed and/or shot then I do being hit by an errant bullet. Both are pretty scary, but I'll more actively change my habits (shop somewhat else, etc) if I think there is a higher probability of being randomly assaulted.
Being shot by a stray bullet is in the "shit happens" category and I'm less likely to lose sleep over it.
What's the diff
Between randomly shot and an errant bullet? Both seem pretty scary and unpleasant to me. Especially in my grocery store parking lot mid day.
Stop & Shop
NECN reports it was in the S&S parking lot
Edit: And the victim has died.
http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Police-Investigating-Shooting-in-Bo...
MHP
I live in both Mattapan and Mission Hill
Sleep better in Mattapan, density of people with guns is about the same, respect the hoodies and they won't bother you, try to screw then or sell on their turf you will encounter street justice.
College kids buy a lot of drugs too, local entrepreneurs don't discriminate, remember the double Homicide on Parker hill?
NU students selling dope.
Calling it street justice is
Calling it street justice is giving murder and mayhem a legitimacy. Kids are being chased down and shot like dogs in the street. Two year old boy shot point blank through the hands of his murdered mother during a drug robbery- a 14 year old murdered because he happened to be standing on the corner i a street where a rival gang member lived. Please dont excuse it as street justice.
You mean Parker Hill Ave
You mean Parker Hill Ave near Hillside? A good friend on mine grew up across the street from there, and I had another buddy who rented in that building in College (lol). If its the same one I am thinking of (home invasion/execution style), "NU students selling dope" is disingenuous - people were local and from even the court record knew the guys doing the home invasion.