Denied entrance just after midnight into Gigi’s Palace, a popular neighborhood bar that he frequented, Miguel Perez stood outside in the drizzle. Moments later, the sound of several gunshots echoed off the storefronts along Bowdoin Street in Dorchester, and Perez, 22, crumpled to the wet sidewalk.

A man who identified himself only as Kane, said he rushed to his window and witnessed his friend fall early yesterday morning, and saw a figure in dark clothing flee the scene.