Posted on 09/06/2011 3:27:06 PM PDT by matt04
A flurry of back-to-back shooting reports kept police busy early Monday morning, just as the city's entertainment district was shutting down for the night and police were preparing to clear hundreds of people from Worthington Street and Stearns Square.
Beginning just before 2 a.m. until around 2:30 a.m., police units were called to virtually every corner of the city for shooting reports, starting with an incident in the downtown entertainment district.
In that incident, an altercation involving a pair of men and two women that allegedly began with an assault at the Shadow Lounge, 278 Worthington St., carried over to Dwight Street, where an unidentified man opened fire while walking away from the dispute, according to police reports.
Police said the suspected shooter -- described only as a black male wearing a black shirt with "a lot of ink on it" -- was last seen walking up Bridge Street toward Chestnut Street. Officers who searched the area were unable to immediately locate the suspect, but they did recover shell casings and detain a man identified only as a "friend of the shooter."
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Minutes after the Dwight Street shooting, police received multiple reports of gunshots fired near 91 Pine St. in the city's Six Corners neighborhood. Shell casings were recovered, but police were unable to immediately locate a shooter, who apparently discharged a weapon from a moving car.
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Then, at 2:19 a.m., police received reports of multiple gunshots fired near the intersection of Magazine and St. James streets in the southwestern corner of the McKnight neighborhood, followed by a 2:26 a.m. report of gunfire in the vicinity of Bristol and Middlesex streets near the northeastern corner of the Springfield College campus in Upper Hill.
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I used to live right there in the late ‘80s. 122 Chestnut St.
Springfield. The heroin capital of Mass.
Almost all the shots came from the BB Hall of Fame as fellow NBA players shot it out over their ho’s!
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