BOSTON — One person is dead after an overnight shooting in Dorchester.
According to Boston Police, around 1 a.m., officers responded to reports of a person shot in the area of 260 Bowdoin Street.
Upon arrival, officers located the victim suffering from a gunshot wound.
The victim was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
Manager of One Family Diner, Oral Pierre, told Boston 25 he had to be escorted through the crime scene and the blocked off road to open his restaurant early Friday morning.
“Sad day,” he said. “To see people getting shot like that, it was scary.”
He watched the terrifying moments on his surveillance and handed it over to police.
Pierre continued, “Stop the shooting, man. It isn’t worth it to take another life. You didn’t give a life, why take a life?”
An employee named Dede added, “It’s sad because he was so young, and to lose his life for whatever reason like that, it sucks... You just took somebody’s kid that you can’t bring back. Basically two families just lost two people.”
The store told Boston 25 the victim was a young man, and a regular customer at One Family Diner.
The Boston Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 617-343-4470.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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