A person was shot at 564 Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester on Wednesday morning, steps from the intersection of Blue Hill Avenue and Seaver Street and just outside the Franklin Park Zoo. The shooting happened around 10:14 a.m. and left the victim with life-threatening wounds before they were rushed to a local hospital. By late morning, Boston police were still searching for the suspected shooter.
Boston police reported that a person was shot Wednesday morning in Dorchester, according to The Boston Globe. Homicide detectives were summoned to the scene, per Boston police, and as of 10:54 a.m. the search for the suspected shooter remained ongoing, per police transmissions cited by the paper.
Address Already Flagged in Prior Police Alert
The address itself wasn’t unfamiliar to investigators. In May 2026, Boston Police Department District B-3 detectives issued a community alert seeking two suspects in an armed robbery investigation who were believed to frequent the building complex at 564 Blue Hill Avenue, according to a Boston Police Department community alert.
The scene also sits at the edge of Franklin Park, where police arrested a 15-year-old suspect on July 25, just under two weeks before Wednesday’s shooting, for firing multiple gunshots near the Franklin Park Zoo’s giraffe entrance during the Puerto Rican Festival, according to Universal Hub. That incident, too, unfolded steps from the Blue Hill Avenue and Seaver Street intersection.
A Violent Summer Along the Avenue
Wednesday’s shooting adds to a string of gun violence along the corridor this summer. On July 15, a suspect opened fire near Normandy Street and Blue Hill Avenue, striking an active police cruiser before officers arrested him without returning fire, Hoodline reported in its coverage of the gunfire that struck a cruiser. Ten days earlier, on July 5, a fatal shooting at 500 Blue Hill Avenue killed 24-year-old Travis Washington and injured three others; police arrested a 24-year-old suspect on murder charges on July 21, as detailed in Hoodline’s report on the earlier fatal Blue Hill Ave shooting…