The WBZ I-Team uncovered a police shooting that could have ended in tragedy. Boston Police officers opened fire through a closed apartment door, the bullets going into the wall of a five-year old’s bedroom. The woman says she was home alone and says she and her son could have been killed.
The 25-year-old did not want to be identified. “I thought I was going to die,” she said. “I thought I was going to die.”
Woman said she heard 4 or 5 gunshots
On February 14, 2026, she was in her Dorchester apartment alone folding clothes. At around 10 p.m. she heard banging on the door. The woman says, “I tried to look through the peephole, but it was blocked. So, I opened the door, and I saw five to six police officers, so I closed it again, I got scared and I locked it.”
Moments later, she heard gunshots and immediately thought she got shot. She told the I-Team she heard four or five shots, showing the holes in the wall and the door.
Boston Police officers fired several shots through the closed apartment door. The bullets went through the wall and into her son’s bedroom. The woman says, one of the bullets “hit the left window and the window shattered.” Showing the I-Team where her son’s TV usually is and his bed. She said, if he had been home, “he would have been dead.”…