Cambridge’s first gunfire of the year injured a Dorchester man early Friday near Central Square, according to scanner reports.
The 2:06 a.m. shooting took place at a familiar location: the Church Corner apartment building at 10 Magazine St., Cambridgeport, just a couple of blocks from Central, which just over 13 months ago was the scene of a fatal Thanksgiving shooting.
That killing of Danasia Greene, 27, in 2023 took place on the street in front of the building, while in this case police were called to an apartment in the upper floors by a resident who “heard people arguing and then a a gunshot,” followed by the sound of a woman crying, according to scanner reports.
An immediate search for a victim or crime scene in the building found nothing. “We’re exhausting every resource here,” an officer is heard saying on the scanner more than an hour later. “We spoke with a few different neighbors and checked the hallways, we knocked on all the doors, we tried everything,” an officer said.
The shot man, a 43-year-old with a series of arraignments and some gun charges in his past, was found alert and conscious at 3:30 a.m. at a Santander Bank branch at 599 Massachusetts Ave. (Update on Jan. 6, 2025: The victim has been released from the hospital, police spokesperson Robert Goulston said.)
Police said later that they were looking for two suspects in the shooting, at least one of whom had been seen in the apartment building, according to scanner reports.
No one has been arrested for the incident, the Globe reported. In this incident, Shotspotter technology did not hear the gunfire or alert police, according to scanner reports. The corner of Green and Magazine streets and the nearest blocks have seen rates of crime unusually high for Cambridge. The intersection is due to get surveillance cameras in April at the latest, police spokesperson Robert Goulston said last month.
There were 13 gunfire incidents in 2024 in Cambridge between Jan. 25 and Dec. 13, making this an early start to violence for the year. There were half as many gunfire incidents in 2023 between Jan. 9 and Nov. 23 – or seven including the fatal police shooting of Arif Sayed Faisal on Jan. 4, 2023, after the 20-year-old was running around the neighborhood holding a knife while suffering an emotional crisis.
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