Seven individuals have been shot, all with non-life threatening accidents, at in the present day’s Caribbean Carnival, police report, as City Council President Ed Flynn urges the day’s second parade to be referred to as off.
Police are on the scene in Dorchester and the wounded have been taken to the hospital. Firearms have been recovered, police added.
The name got here in at 7:44 a.m. for an lively capturing on Blue Hill Avenue and Talbot Avenue, in line with police.
Flynn stated this morning police have been “confiscating guns” within the neighborhoods however a extra “comprehensive plan” is required to handle gun violence.
He’s additionally calling for the town to cancel in the present day’s second parade scheduled for 1 p.m. — telling the Herald “based on the violence from this morning and not having enough police officers in the city, we should cancel it.”
The annual Caribbean Carnival options two separate parades. The first parade, the J’ouvert Parade, began at 6:30 AM on Talbot Avenue at Kerwin Street and proceeds up Blue Hill Avenue to the Circuit Drive Entrance (Peabody Circle) for Franklin Park.
The second and essential parade, the Caribbean Carnival, begins at 1 p.m. on Warren Street at Martin Luther King Boulevard and proceeds on Warren Street to Blue Hill Avenue ending on Blue Hill Avenue on the Circuit Drive Entrance (Peabody Circle) for Franklin Park.
Formation for the Carnival Parade happens on Martin Luther King Boulevard between Warren Street and Washington Street.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”