09-28-2010, 04:59 PM
drugs of course.
Boston Globe
Boston police investigators are actively pursuing a lead that the quadruple slayings on a Mattapan side street early today – including the death of a toddler – occurred during a drug-related encounter, two law enforcement officials said this afternoon.
Detectives are pursuing this motive after one of the victims -- before he fell unconscious -- said he had been trying to buy drugs shortly before the shooting rampage, one of the officials said.
Three male victims were found naked in the street, the officials said. They were spread many feet apart from one another, making it appear as if they were trying to flee the scene as they were shot, one of the officials said. The victims were not lined up and shot execution-style, the official said.
Two of the three men were declared dead at the scene; the third remains in critical condition at a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. A woman was also declared dead at the scene. The toddler, who the official said was a boy, was rushed to a hospital before dying. Another official said the woman was cradling the boy when she was shot in the head.
Boston Globe
Boston police investigators are actively pursuing a lead that the quadruple slayings on a Mattapan side street early today – including the death of a toddler – occurred during a drug-related encounter, two law enforcement officials said this afternoon.
Detectives are pursuing this motive after one of the victims -- before he fell unconscious -- said he had been trying to buy drugs shortly before the shooting rampage, one of the officials said.
Three male victims were found naked in the street, the officials said. They were spread many feet apart from one another, making it appear as if they were trying to flee the scene as they were shot, one of the officials said. The victims were not lined up and shot execution-style, the official said.
Two of the three men were declared dead at the scene; the third remains in critical condition at a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. A woman was also declared dead at the scene. The toddler, who the official said was a boy, was rushed to a hospital before dying. Another official said the woman was cradling the boy when she was shot in the head.