Fatal gun violence broke out in North Cambridge late Monday, leaving one man on Clifton Street shot at least twice in the chest, according to police scanner reports.
Police got “multiple” calls at 11:25 p.m. that a car – later described as a gray or white SUV – sped toward Rindge Avenue after neighbors saw “flashes and heard six to seven shots.” When officers arrived they found a man with life-threatening injuries who was taken to Mount Auburn Hospital.
Angel Nieves, 21, of Springfield, died within the hour. Police are investigating the crime as a homicide, spokesperson Robert Goulston confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
“The preliminary investigation suggests this is an isolated incident,” Middlesex district attorney Marian Ryan and Cambridge police commissioner Christine Elow said in a Tuesday press release.
The area around Jerry’s Pond by the Alewife T station had also seen a gunshot incident without injury Nov. 22 at New England Transmission at 372 Rindge Ave., with surveillance video showing a red Lexus on the wrong side of Rindge – and on the sidewalk – and three people seeming to chase the vehicle on foot, investigators said. One of the runners apparently fired two shots at the car as it sped away down the sidewalk, hitting a traffic light pole and knocking it to the ground. Those three have been arrested and arraigned, officials said in early December.
This year has seen two gunfire incidents in its first two weeks; the first was Jan. 3 in Cambridgeport near Central Square, a shooting in an apartment that left one man injured.
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.
Shotspotter technology did not hear the gunfire and alert police, according to scanner reports. It’s the third incident in a row in which the system didn’t hear the gunfire.
Anyone with information is urged to contact police anonymously at (617) 349-9151 or at cambridgepolice.org/TIPS.
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Well Ms. Nolan, Mr. McGovern and the other seven councillors… are you still debating whether the city should install surveillance cameras throughout the entire city.
What is it going to take for you to agree to place the cameras? Perhaps if a friend of yours is shot. Perhaps if a friend is injured by a hit and run driver? Do something pro actively, not after a terrible incident occurs.
For those who believe privacy of individuals is compromised if cameras are placed all over Cambridge, there is no entitled privacy on city streets. This city has an obligation to protect its citizens and one of the ways to do so is to have surveillance cameras.
Shotspotter didn’t hear it? Well, I did, from a bit less than a mile away. Some system.
Shooting incidents seem to be happening every week in Cambridge. Keep this up and housing pricing will become affordable in Cambridge very soon. We will not even need to rezone!
I wonder if somebody with access to police data can summarize statistics of these ‘shooting accidents’ including map with locations and info on participants: age, race, job, education, etc.
To concerned43: I am in favor of using cameras in our public ways and parks. I believe Councillor McGovern is also. The city is starting a program in Central Square using some cameras, which I supported. And suppore more use.
To Patty Nolan,
Yes, the city is starting a program in Central Square. That is a small area.
What about the rest of Cambridge? How many years is going to take; how many people are going to be shot; and how many people are going to be injured by hit and run drivers, before the city installs cameras all over the city. What is The Council waiting for? The Council should be proactive and not wait until incidents happen.
If New York and London and so many other cities can have cameras, so can Cambridge.
I voted for you (number 2), because I think you’re rational. Please make cameras a major policy proposal of yours. Thank you.
If this is the same guy [same name/age, mentioned as formerly of Cambridge in the first linked article] this would seem to be drug-related violence. No local newspapers have made this connection, so maybe I’m completely off-base?
https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/suspect-in-adams-killing-shot-victim-a-drug-dealing-partner-in-head-police-say/article_0a0ee110-90a0-11eb-b124-2f237cf2cec0.html
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/massachusetts-man-acquitted-in-deadly-shooting/