Bloody night in Dorchester: Four shot, four hacked with a machete, one dead

Boston Police report four people were shot around 3:50 a.m. at 7 Edson St. Carl Hentz Belizaire, 21, of Mattapan, was pronounced dead at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The other three victims - a man, 26, a man, 40, and a woman, 19 - are all expected to survive.

Belizaire is Dorchester's 17th murder victim of 2009 and Boston's 40th. Police say he was the intended victim; the other three people were just in the way.

The Herald reports that around 5 a.m., a man involved in a large fight outside a party at 98 Intervale St. whipped out a machete and began slashing: Four people were injured, but are expected to survive.