Police find shell casings by Danehy Park following reports of multiple shots fired
The first gunfire of the year in Cambridge came Thursday, police said in an email Friday. Like many of the city’s gunfire incidents, no victims were found – only shell casings that showed a weapon had been fired.
Police were called to Danehy Park in Neighborhood 9 at around 9:20 p.m. by two callers from the area, with one reporting 10 shots and the other 20, according to scanner reports. Officers searched areas of the 55-acre park until 9:50 p.m. before finding the casings at Field and Fern streets, by a parking lot next to the Universal Design playground named after former city manager Louis A. DePasquale.
“We are investigating exactly how many shots were fired and how many firearms were involved,” police said in a 7:20 a.m. Friday email.
Along with there being no victims, no witnesses were found, police said.
It was just Dec. 16, 2022, that the neighborhood by the park and Universal Design playground experienced another jarring gunfire incident, this one at at the Briston Arms apartments on Garden Street – around the corner from Thursday’s incident.
In the 2022 incident, a resident’s window was shot out.
That year saw 13 gunfire incidents, though only two involved gunfire with injuries or deaths. Incidents were down to six in 2023, not including a fatal police shooting that preceded them all, but there was more violence to people: Four of the six gun incidents in 2023 not involving police involved injury or death.
In 2022 and 2023, the city was barely a week into the new year before those incidents – Jan. 7 and Jan. 9, respectively. This year, the first incident took place with less than a week to go until February.
Lets not wait until someone is killed before we revisit cameras in public parks. It was discussed after the central square shooting. International affairs will get far more attention then things under the city control.
Any report of “shots fired” in Cambridge is concerning, but so is the ongoing genocidal slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza (and the West Bank) by armed groups of the State of Israel (and, in the case of the West Bank, Jewish settlers, as well…) Israel’s largest weapons producer, Elbit, have offices just a few blocks from City Hall. The presidents of Harvard and MIT have been viciously attacked – and Claudia Gay was forced to resign – by billionaire supporters of Israel, like the now notorious Bill Ackman, for not being sufficiently “pro-Israel.” Cambridge has increasingly become a “global city,” thanks, in part, to the commercial real estate policies promoted by Mr. Galluccio when he was on the City Council. Cambridge can’t manage to fix a pothole, but Biden wants another $14 billion of our tax dollars for… Israel? Cambridge is now a preeminent international city, like it or not. We have responsibilities and obligations now that go well beyond just a shell casing spotted near Danehy Field.
That should have been *Claudine* Gay, obviously; Bono doesn’t know whether that was Bono, or,”auto-mistake…” It will be tough for Ackman & Co. to pursue their vicious witch-hunt against the president of MIT, now, too, however, now that Ackman’s own spouse, Neri Oxman – a former member of the IOF (Israeli Occupation Forces) – had to quickly admit to plagiarism in her own work after this was disclosed in a report by Business Insider, which has now itself come under attack! [Get it?]