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4 shot dead in Boston rap studio
Four men were found fatally shot in a rap music studio in the basement of a Boston home, police said on Wednesday in the city's deadliest shooting in more than a decade.
The killings late on Tuesday in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood pushed the city's murder rate to a 10-year-high of 71 and marked Boston's worst shooting since a massacre in a Chinatown social club that killed five people in 1991.
Police Superintendent Bobbie Johnson said the latest shootings in the basement music studio of a home did not appear to have been random and the area was not considered a trouble spot.
Police said they did not have a motive for the shooting.
Three of the men were found dead on the scene and a fourth died in hospital, he said. Two were white and two black. All were in their early 20s. Witnesses told police a heavy-set man fled the scene after the shooting.
Boston has been shaken by a wave of gun violence. Shootings are up 34 percent from a year ago.
Firearm-related arrests have jumped 38 percent in the 18-to-21 age bracket. Of the total murders this year, 46 involved guns.
Source: cnn.com
The killings late on Tuesday in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood pushed the city's murder rate to a 10-year-high of 71 and marked Boston's worst shooting since a massacre in a Chinatown social club that killed five people in 1991.
Police Superintendent Bobbie Johnson said the latest shootings in the basement music studio of a home did not appear to have been random and the area was not considered a trouble spot.
Police said they did not have a motive for the shooting.
Three of the men were found dead on the scene and a fourth died in hospital, he said. Two were white and two black. All were in their early 20s. Witnesses told police a heavy-set man fled the scene after the shooting.
Boston has been shaken by a wave of gun violence. Shootings are up 34 percent from a year ago.
Firearm-related arrests have jumped 38 percent in the 18-to-21 age bracket. Of the total murders this year, 46 involved guns.
Source: cnn.com