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| One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting near a high school in the Dorchester neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, the Boston Police Department said. | One person was killed and three others were injured in a shooting near a high school in the Dorchester neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon, the Boston Police Department said. |
| The Boston police commissioner, William Evans, said that the person who was killed was a 17-year-old student of Jeremiah E. Burke High School. | The Boston police commissioner, William Evans, said that the person who was killed was a 17-year-old student of Jeremiah E. Burke High School. |
| Myeshia Henderson, a spokeswoman for the department, said that two other people, both in their late teens, had suffered injuries that were not life-threatening. A woman in her 60s was treated for a graze wound at the scene, Ms. Henderson said. | Myeshia Henderson, a spokeswoman for the department, said that two other people, both in their late teens, had suffered injuries that were not life-threatening. A woman in her 60s was treated for a graze wound at the scene, Ms. Henderson said. |
| At an afternoon news conference, Commissioner Evans said the police were canvassing the neighborhood door to door in a search for the suspect or suspects. | |
| Asked if the shooting was gang-related, Mr. Evans said it was too early to tell. | |
| “We don’t know if it was a fight that was spilled out,” he said. “Kids don’t fight anymore with their hands, they run and get weapons.” | |
| Mayor Martin J. Walsh, standing with Mr. Evans, said that trauma counselors would be sent into the school Thursday to help students and teachers cope with what happened. | |
| “The victim is too young to be gunned down at the middle of the daytime, and the community is sick and tired of the shootings,” Mayor Walsh said. | |
| Ali Guevara, 18, a senior at the school, was at a Burger King nearby when the shooting took place. She said that she heard shots, and that a friend told her the shooting took place after someone at the school pulled a fire alarm, an account repeated by several other students to local television reporters. | |
| Mr. Evans said he understood that a fire alarm had been pulled at the school but had “no clue” whether it was related to the shooting. |