A total of four people were injured, and one was killed, in a shoot at Jeremiah Burke High School in Dorchester on Wednesday afternoon.
According to a quote from Office James Kenneally, via the Boston Globe:
The person who died was in his late teens. Two other victims were also in their late teens, he said, while an elderly woman was treated at the scene for a graze wound.
The shooting was reported in the area of 56 Washington Street shortly after 1 p.m., police said. An active search for the shooter is underway in the area. The Burke school and 3 other nearby schools were placed in lockdown mode after the incident, preventing students from leaving. The schools placed on lockdown are Dearborn STEM Academy, the Martin Luther King, Jr. K-8 School, and the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School.
