2 Dead In Shooting, 1 Injured In Stabbing In Jamaica Plain

JAMAICA PLAIN, MA — Two are dead and one more is injured after a shooting and a stabbing Monday evening in Jamaica Plain. This comes just days after a young woman was shot in the chest at nearby Jackson Square.

Boston Police said a call came in around 5:50 p.m. for reports of shots fired in the area of 60 Bickford St., which is part of a public housing community. When they arrived to the hallway of the building, police found a woman with wounds indicating she had been shot multiple times. A man was also found with a gunshot wound and pronounced dead, Boston Police Commissioner William Gross said in press conference at the scene. The woman was later pronounced dead.

Gross said another man had non life-threatening injuries on account of a stabbing.

Police believe all the people involved were known to each other.

Traffic was blocked at 90 Bickford St., according to police radio reports.

This brings the number of shootings in Boston up to 182 and the number of reported homicides up to 45.

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