A Boston high school student was shot Thursday shortly after she participated in a graduation ceremony held at the Institute for Contemporary Art in the Seaport, officials said. The 18-year-old woman was shot around 11:45 a.m.
“potentially” in a parking garage after an “altercation,” said Police Commissioner Michael Cox. The shooting took place after the graduation ceremony for the Boston Collaborative High School had been completed. Her injuries are not life-threatening, he said.
Cox declined to say exactly where the shooting happened but said it did not occur on Pier 4 Boulevard where police had sealed off a large portion of the street as a crime scene. A car was also blocked off with police tape, officials said. “We believe this was not a random event,’' Cox said, adding there is no danger to the public.
Advertisement Suffolk District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden, who joined Cox, called the incident a “travesty.’ “To say that this is an unfortunate incident would be an understatement.
This is a travesty,” Hayden said. “This should not have happened. High school students attending graduation on a beautiful day should not have that day marked with a shooting taking place, and a young woman has to go to the hospital.
” He urged anyone who was involved to turn themselves in. Rep. Russell Holmes, a Democrat who represents Mattapan and Dorchester, works nearby.
Holmes noticed activity in the area around 11:30 a.m. so he went to Pier 4 Boulevard to check it out.
