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30-Year-Old Man Fatally Shot In Brighton

Police are investigating a late night shooting in Boston that left one man dead.

The victim was found outside an apartment complex on Telford Street in the city's Brighton neighborhood shortly before midnight Thursday.

He had been shot in the chest and torso and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police have not released his name but say he was 30 years old.

Witnesses say the shooter fled from the scene on foot.

Investigators are looking at surveillance cameras and canvassing the area.

There was no immediate word on arrests.

The shooting was the city's 28th homicide of 2015.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that this shooting was the city's 29th homicide of the year. It was the city's 28th. We regret the error.

This article was originally published on October 23, 2015.

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