Authorities could provide no information late last night, but had strung police tape around the multi-family building. A neighbor reported hearing gunshots and two ambulances were seen leaving the scene.
Police investigate the scene at 88-90 Commonwealth Avenue late Friday where two people were shot.
A Springfield detective emerges from the side yard at 88-90 Commonwealth Ave. where two people were shot late Friday.SPRINGFIELD – Police late Friday night were investigating a report that two people were shot at 88-90 Commonwealth Ave. around 11 p.m.
Authorities could provide no information late last night, but had strung police tape around the multi-family building. A neighbor reported hearing gunshots and two ambulances were seen leaving the scene.
Police at the scene seemed to concentrate on the first-floor apartment.
The incident occurred one day after Mayor Domenic J. Sarno called for a united effort to fight city crime that had resulted in the murder of Antonia Gonzales on Aug. 11 and five woundings since then.
Gonzales became the city’s seventh homicide victim in 2012 when he was shot outside a teenager’s birthday party on Bay Street. He was trying to intervene in a disturbance. A 16-year-old was charged with murder.
Also on Aug. 11 a 26-year-old man was shot in the leg at a “youth party” in Old Hill and a 23-year-old man was shot in the ankle in a drive-by in the Forest Park neighborhood.
On Tuesday evening, two people were shot outside 110 Noel St., also in Forest Park. The man and woman survived gunshot wounds to the shoulder and leg, respectively.
On Wednesday afternoon, a 19-year-old man was shot in the leg near the intersection of Maple and High streets after an argument with another man.
“This youth violence has been the scourge of urban America,” Sarno said in an interview Thursday with MassLive.com and The Republican.
Despite preventive and proactive policing in the city’s fight against crime, the mayor said the public must play a bigger role. “We can’t do it alone,” Sarno said, referring to his administration and Springfield Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet.