DORCHESTER — One person was injured after a shooting in a busy section of Dorchester on Friday afternoon.
Boston police say a group jumped out of a car down here and opened fire on Dorchester Avenue around 3:23 p.m.
Employees at the Avenue Grille on Dorchester Avenue said they heard 3-4 gunshots. Moments later, they say a teenaged boy was helped inside their pizza shop with a gunshot wound to the foot.
Others nearby described the scene.
“I thought it was a truck backfiring,” said a Dorchester resident. “They looked like young kids... I’ve lived here 30 years. We’ve never had anything happen here.”
She added, “They have to get these guns off the street.”
The woman told us she saw kids wrestling near the corner by her home after the gunshots.
Another Dorchester resident said he heard the commotion outside his front door.
“I was getting in the shower, heard like three shots,” he said. “Then I heard two kids screaming, and they were like, ‘He just shot me!’”
Workers said they heard a verbal argument between two groups on Mt. Vernon Street and three loud gunshots rang out .
The victim came out screaming right after as the gunman’s car allegedly sped off.
Police expect the victim to be okay.
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