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Boston Police Investigate Death After Multiple Shootings In Dorchester

Boston police are investigating multiple shootings in Dorchester on Wednesday night that killed one and injured several others.

Authorities say they found the man shot several times shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday near Brookford and Dacia streets. He was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name has not been released. No arrests have been made.

Hours earlier, Boston police responded to the shooting of four men about half a mile away on Fayston Street near where young children at a party were playing in a bounce house.

Commissioner Bill Evans said the shooting was prompted by an argument at a nearby house party shortly before 7 p.m.

One of the men suffered life-threatening injuries. The others are expected to survive. Their names have not been released.

On Thursday, Mayor Marty Walsh, who was at a bagel shop in West Roxbury to promote making businesses more accessible to older people, expressed outrage over the violence.

"If a stray bullet," he said, "would have hit a baby in [the bounce house], one of the little kids in there, what would we be talking about today?

"If you want to kill each other — you know, it's a horrible thing, and I don't want to be seen here as mayor and be justifying that — you kill each other," Walsh continued. "But what happens is, you kill an innocent person and you disrupt a whole community."

The mayor called for victims in the shooting to "talk about who shot you" and cooperate with police. He also requested that anyone else with information reach out to detectives.

With reporting from Quincy Walters, Lisa Creamer and Laney Ruckstuhl 

This article was originally published on July 05, 2018.

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