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Two teens shot near Jackson Square, one dead

UPDATE: Arrest made.

Boston Police report a 14-year-old shot at 944 Parker St. this afternoon has died at Children's Hospital. He is Boston's 21st homicide victim this year.

A second teen was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital and is expected to survive, police say.

Albert Willis reported around 3:45 p.m.:

young black male face down in front of Jackson Square station. Police just arriving. Another shooting victim at 944 Parker Street. Columbus Ave. at Centre now blocked off to secure the crime scene.

The Globe reports police are looking for three people who may have fled in a dark-colored Acura.

The double shooting comes the day after a man was shot to death in Dorchester and another man was shot in the stomach in Roslindale.

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These two addresses are several blocks apart. The police report gives one address while the Globe gives the other. Are these actually two separate incidents?

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Then collapsed a couple blocks away?

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225 Centre is the address of the parcel the T station is on. 944 Parker Street is one of the Bromley-Heath buildings right behind the station. So must have happened on the grass between the station and the apartments.

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which gave me these directions for walking from one address to the other.

In any event, this is scary as it adjoins both a busy T station and a busy bike path.

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Is often not great for plotting specific house numbers, particularly when you have stuff like buildings behind other buildings and stuff. City assessing maps are better. And more importantly, this (the shooting of a kid not believed to be involved in gangs etc., not the bad maps) is an example of why warehousing is bad. You get a whole bunch of people who've had trouble getting their lives together all living in one place, and you get places where the cops just ignore the calls. A family I work with in Bromley-Heath says they call regularly to say that a drug deal just went down, they hear neighbors beating the crap out of each other, etc., and the cops never show up. And this is not a family that makes vindictive or overreactive 911 calls -- I was there waiting for them once when they called and appropriately described a fight that was happening outside their window, then waited an hour while no one showed up or called back. The couple times I've called from my middle-class neighborhood with a non-projects address just a few blocks from there about seeing a fight or a drug deal, the cops have been there in minutes. (They don't, however, come at all when people are parked across my driveway and I can't get out to go to work. Bastards.)

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Every call is responded to... Even hangups...Are you actually dialing 911??? I sincerely doubt it. On any given day there are at least 6 police officers assigned to that one developement. Every tenant can call Boston Housing Police directly or 911. I sincerely doubt that the police don't respond to your calls.

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Of course I'm dialing 911, or from my cell phone, 617-343-4911. Yes, they take the call, listen and clarify, then say they'll "send someone out when we can." They usually don't.

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You have to be real specific and willing to identify yourself and what you specifically saw if you want the police to respond to a drug call in many instances. In other cases, unmarked dectective and/or community service units are already there and in the area.

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The Globe got it wrong. The Jackson Sq T station extends all the way down Columbus ave almost to Heath st

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time to sweep the gang-banging out of JP. There's all this talk about building and fixing up the Jackson Square area. Give me a break. This area will never thrive while the Bromley-Heath Housing project is there.

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Where do you propose the residents live?

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Brockton

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but changing the dynamic of urban housing projects seems like it's worth considering.

In the last 20 years many millions of dollars have been used to renovate the "projects" yet they are still over represented in the local crime logs. I believe that housing assistance is something that should be offered to residents that need help getting back on their feet, but maybe there is a way to spread it out physically and break up its insular nature. Obviously there are reasons that compact, high rise style "low income" housing became popular, and changing this would be a herculean task, but wouldn't the residents be better off if they were living in homes or apartments spread evenly around the neighborhood?

I understand the negative arguments against this arrangements from personal experience. In a different time (when I lived in Allston-near BU) a large, run down, neighboring house was converted into single room occupancy housing for individuals with special needs. The up-roar during the planning stages was riduculous, full of fear and loathing, and locals afraid for their safety and real estate value. In the end the project was well managed and the building was no longer a hazardous eye-sore. It was a positive action.

The positive impacts of breaking up the "projects" may include more personal acceptance of the residents into the local neighborhoods, more opportunities to integrate into the local community and economy, safer living conditions, etc. A change of surroundings could make a lot of difference to families that constantly see violence and no prospects for the future. Am I wrong? I don't know how this could ever be accomplished so it's just a thought for consideration.

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Boston Police report he was Jaewon Martin.

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The Globe interviews family and friends.

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