One dead and one injured as “40 gunshots” erupt at a gas station as a wave of violence at gas pumps kills 11 in just months

A MAN was shot dead and another injured in a spate of violence at petrol stations in recent months that has killed 11 people at the pumps.

Police officers arrived at the Alfa gas station in Roslindale, Boston, around 9:47 p.m. Friday night and found that two people had been shot dead.

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One of the men was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was taken to a local hospital, Deputy Police Commissioner James Miller said.

The man killed was later identified as Dreshaun Johnson by Heather Powell, his mentor at Roslindale Community Center. CBS Boston reports.

“I still can’t imagine how that could have happened to someone so loved,” Powell said. “Dre was a star. He didn’t deserve this to happen to him.”

“I’m still trying to process what happened on my own and all the youth leaders in the community are definitely grieving right now. This is a great loss for Roslindale.”

Miller added that the shooting is being investigated and “does not appear to be a random act of violence.”

He added that anyone with information about the shooting should call the department’s Homicide Division at 617-343-4470.

Those wishing to report anonymously should call the CrimeStoppers hotline at 1-800-494-TIPS.

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: we have too many guns on our streets at the moment,” Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden told reporters at the scene after arriving from the scene of another shooting in Revere was that had happened in the same hour. “This is a very tragic incident. One is no longer with us.”

The shooting in a place as public and ordinary as a gas station “must be scary for residents,” Hayden added.

“So far this year, police have pulled more than 160 illegal guns from the streets of Boston, including five loaded handguns from youths this week,” he later wrote in an email statement. “Now again we see the weapons of destruction killing one person, wounding another and sending bullets flying in an open-air business environment where people go about their daily routines. I urge anyone with knowledge of those involved to assist the investigation. This is a societal problem that requires a societal response.”

The news comes amid a spate of violence at gas stations as pump prices soar.

On April 7, two men were shot dead at a gas station in Trenton. New Jersey.

Officials found a 26-year-old male victim on the side of the gas station suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, reports said 6ABC.

He was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Officials also learned of a second victim, a 23-year-old man from Hamilton who had arrived at the hospital in a private vehicle. He sustained a gunshot wound to the calf.

Two other men were hospitalized after being shot in their Honda CRV at a BP gas station in the Bronx. NYC.

Officials say an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old were in a car when a man approached them and shot both of them in the arm before they fled, reports said news 12.

Also earlier this month, a man shot and killed two people at a gas station in the south Indiana was charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, police said.

The Floyd County Superior Court issued an arrest warrant for Cherok Ameer Douglass, 37, of New Albany, with the new charges in addition to previous charges of kidnapping and robbery, Indiana State Police Sgt. Carey Huls said.

Douglass allegedly killed his wife and a customer in a New Albany gas station parking lot, Huls said.

Earlier this month a Florida Woman accused of cheating hours before soaking a store clerk with petrol The Miami Herald reports.

Florida authorities said the clerk and a co-worker caught fire after trying to put out a fire the beggar had started.

Both employees were taken to the hospital, one with life-threatening injuries.

The attacker was identified as Betty Jean McFadden, 30, after being arrested near the gas station.

The lawyer reported that two 24-year-old men have been arrested for attempted second-degree murder Louisiana.

Isiasha Alijah Pierre and Kenani Guillory are accused of assaulting two people at a gas station, where they opened fire as the victims exited a silver Hyundai.

A Michigan Man was shot dead outside a gas station in broad daylight by 22-year-old Joshua Carter.

Carter, who turned himself in, is one of two suspects responsible for the death of 46-year-old father-of-four Talal Shamo, according to Fox 2 Detroit.

police officers in phoenix, ArizonaTwo men are chasing after a 39-year-old man was shot dead at a QT gas station.

The man who was shot was taken to a hospital but died as a result of his injuries. AZ headquarters reports.

A man was shot dead at a Philadelphia gas station in late February after surviving gunfire just weeks earlier.

Fox reports saying that Anthony Jamir Santangelo, 28, was killed late Sunday WTXF believed he was the same man who was shot on February 21.

And a businessman in Kansas City was shot dead at a gas pump a few weeks ago according to KCTV.

Other acts of violence include another fatal shootout outside of a home Gas station in Kansas Cityand a shooting at a gas station in Memphis, Tennessee, where a man shot and killed a woman before she eventually crashed into her car and succumbed to her injuries.

And a white couple have been accused of committing a hate crime after they allegedly shot and stabbed a Black Navy veteran at a gas station in California. CBS reports.

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