I’ll just come right out and say it: there are a group of narrow-minded, blatantly racist dudes on this forum. There are also a lot of thoughtful, open-minded folks. For the racists, young black man gets shot in Dot, he must have been drug or gang affiliated, End of Story.
My relatives tell me that Dorchester is undergoing a ‘renaissance.’ I guess that’s lefty talk for bloodletting.
Dorchester is over six square miles and roughly 100,000 people, and broken down into at least eight different sub-neighborhoods. It’s a real “melting pot” with ancestry as follows: Irish 19%, Vietnamese 17%, African 11%, Cape Verdean 9%, Italian 6%, and at least 10 others. The neighborhoods are what I call “Microsegregated,” with one street mostly Irish, the next Vietnamese, the next Cape Verdean, and on.
The South End gentrified after Back Bay became crowded and expensive. Next stop was South Boston. Our neighbor sold her unimproved three family, no parking, for $1.1 million.
Since 2012 Savin Hill skyrocketed, and now other parts of Dot (mostly near Red Line stations) are also experiencing huge price runups. At the same time, the Geneva Four Corners area remains a crime and gang hot spot. Whenever there is a murder in Dot, I map the address and it’s usually within a few tenths of a mile from there. This young man was killed 0.3 miles from there, his family were long-time residents.
But this incident on the face of it seems different from most drug or gang-involved shootings. This kid graduated from Buckingham Brown & Nichols, a highly selective private school in Cambridge. He was redshirted by UMichigan basketball and then played a year. He was coaching at UMB. He was shot near his parents house, and the police don’t seem to have any leads or suspects. Sad ending regardless of how it transpired.
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