A man shot inside the John Marshall Elementary School in Dorchester last night tried to run away rather than await help, Boston Police report, adding that might have something to do with the fact that he "is well known to law enforcement." The shooting was about a half mile away from the scene of a fatal double shooting on Monday.

Police say the man, 22, was shot shortly before 7 p.m. at a community basketball session at the Westville Street school and that responding officers found him a couple blocks away on Corona Street. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment of non-fatal injuries.

"The preliminary investigation has determined that this was not a random incident and the victim is believed to have been the target," police say. "The victim is well-known to law enforcement and has been uncooperative with the investigation."

There is no word if this is connected to Monday's double shooting at Bowdoin and Norton streets, about a half-mile away, in which one man suffered fatal injuries.

Police Commissioner Ed Davis said he was alarmed by "the brazeness" of the shooting. "As a community, we must have no tolerance for this."

This is the second gun incident in or near the school this month. On Nov. 3, a man was shot to death at Bowdoin and Westville streets.

Davis said police are stepping up patrols in the area around the school and will be going after "impact players" who might have something to do with the shooting. The city is also assigning school police officers, street workers and a trauma team to the school, he said.

Anybody with information about the shooting should contact detectives at 617-343-4335 or contact the anonymous tip line at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting the word TIP to CRIME (27463).

The MBTA wasn't running outbound trains between Park Street and JFK this afternoon because of "a power problem in the downtown area," according to announcements that played in between the usual announcements imploring riders to pay their fares and to say something if they see something.

I was at South Station when an inbound train pulled in around 2:30 p.m., emblazoned with "Out of Service" displays. But it stopped and then, after a minute or so, the doors opened. Like the well trained sheep we are, everybody got on - and suddenly realized the train smelled like burning garbage.

"It's just a trash fire on the tracks, not the train," an MBTA cop reassured us. "It's a trash fire, not the train."

More cops appeared on the platform. Then the doors closed and we left.

The Boston City Council agreed today to look at ways of making it harder for the nosy to see how you're voting.

Councilor John Tobin (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain), said the current system, in which people vote at little triangular platforms that look like they belong in a bank, makes it too easy for people standing at the same cluster to see how somebody's voted. And then there's the walk to the scanner box, which offers further opportunity to figure out a person's ballot, he said.

Tobin said some cities use a system in which voters sit at a table and a privacy curtain surrounds them.

Tobin's resolution.