3 Shot, 1 Fatally In Mattapan

It's a few hours after a shooting in Mattapan left one young man killed and two others injured, and a cleanup crew is disinfecting blood-splattered sidewalks. A street sweeper wisps away debris.

People who live on Deering Road, where the shooting happened Tuesday morning, are gathered on porches, processing what is now the second shooting in Mattapan in four days.

Harold Meyers, who lives across the street from the scene of the shooting, says he heard about six gunshots.

"I didn't move here to hear gunshots," he says. "I moved here to have a more relaxed settled kind of way. I tried to move away from that life."

Meyers says he's disturbed by all the violence that seems to be happening in his neighborhood.

"I have a little granddaughter, she's now 12 years, ya know?" he says. "She could've been outside playing."

Just Saturday, a city public works employee was killed in Mattapan. With this latest shooting, Mattapan has now seen 17 shootings this year.

The shooting of the three men — all of whom are in their 20s — did not appear to be random, and there have been no arrests, Boston Police Commissioner William Gross told reporters Tuesday.

Gross aimed his frustration at the criminal justice system.

"We are sick and tired of when we make arrests, several of the individuals, it's their third and fourth time with a firearm offense," Gross says, adding that releasing people with "stay away" orders and "house arrest ankle bracelets" doesn't work.

Meyers agrees, and says GPS ankle bracelets can't monitor someone's intent to commit crimes.