INFORMATION JUST IN.
MATT.
>> JUST MOMENTS AGO POLI
BOSTON POLICE IDENTIFIED THE
VICTIMS AS 32-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN
GREEN FROM NEW BEDFROD AND
34-YEAR-OLD JOSE MARTINEZ OF
BOSTON, TWO MEN SHOT AND KILLED
JUST FEET FROM AN ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL.
>> YOU GOTTA UNDERSTAND THESE
KIDS ARE GOING TO COME HOME AND
ASK QUESTIONS, MOMMY, WH
HAPPENED?
>> THE AFTERNOON PICKUP AT JFK
ELEMENTARY IN JAMAICA PLAIN WAS
NOTICEABLY DIFFERENT TUESDAY.
SCHOOL BUSES HAD TO NAVIGATE
ROADS LINES WITH POLICE CRUISERS
AND NEWS TRUCKS, WHILE A SMALL
MEMORIAL OF FLOWERS AND CANDLES
GREW IN A PARK JUST ACROSS THE
STREET.
>> AFTER A FEW DAYS HOPEFULLY
THE SITUATION WILL GET BETTER
-- GET BETTER.
>> THE MORNING DROP OFF WAS EVEN
WORSE, AS POLICE TAPE BLOCKED
OFF SIDEWALKS LEADING TO THE
SCHOOL, AFTER MULTIPLE SHELL
CASINGS WERE FOUND HOURS AFTER
LAST NIGHT’S FATAL SHOOTING OF
TWO MEN ON MOZART AND BOLSTER
STREETS.
>> IT WAS LIKE 17-18 SHOTS.
FOUR THAT DOESN’T MEAN NOTHING.
THAT MEAN THAT YOU A MURDERER.
>> SO FAR NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN
MADE, AND POLICE HAVE YET TO
-- BUT PLEASE HAVE NOW
IDENTIFIED THE HOMICIDE VICTIMS.
THEY ARE THE 19TH AND 20TH
HOMICIDE VICTIMS THIS YEAR.
>> YOU KNOW SOME ARE RANDOM SOME
AREN’T AND THIS DIDN’T APPEAR TO
BE RANDOM LAST NIGHT.
>> MAYOR WALSH SAYS HE’S SPOKEN
WITH COMMISSIONER GROSS, AND
THERE WILL BE AN INCREASED
POLICE PRESENCE IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD, WHERE THE WALSH
WAS ALREADY SCHEDULED TO HOST A
NEIGHBORHOOD COFFEE HOUR
TOMORROW CHANCE FOR THE MAYOR TO
, A TALK WITH RESIDENTS, WHO
WILL LIKELY HAVE A LOT TO SAY,
FOLLOWING THESE TWO MURDERS,
LESS THAN A QUARTER MILE FROM
TWO SCHOOLS.
 THERE ARE CERTAIN TYPES OF
SHOOTINGS AND CERTAIN TYPES OF
HOMICIDES, THERE’S NOT A LOT WE
CAN DO UNLESS WE’RE AT THE RIGHT
PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME AND THAT
APPEARS COULD HAVE BEEN THE CASE
LAST NIGHT.
>> THE 20 HOMICIDES THIS YEAR IS
LESS THAN THE 24 AT THIS SAME
TIME.
