A woman was shot and killed around 9 p.m. Saturday in Dorchester and two men were shot just before midnight in Roxbury, one fatally, according to Boston police.
Police found the woman suffering from gunshot wounds at 15 Fermoy Heights, police said in a statement. She was pronounced dead at the scene in a neighborhood that sits between American Legion Highway and Blue Hill Avenue, not far from Franklin Park.
Officers responded to the second shooting at approximately 11:30 p.m. at 958 Tremont St., where they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds, police said in another statement.
Both men were sent to local hospitals, where one was pronounced dead. The other man’s injuries were not life-threatening, according to police.
The shootings are all under investigation.
“The last three weeks have been heartbreaking for Boston, with gun and knife violence taking too many lives and leaving too many families and friends with eternal grief,” said Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden in a brief statement. “As always, we ask for the public’s help in solving these crimes and in addressing the factors that lead to them.”
The address authorities listed as the location of the Roxbury shooting is for Slade’s Bar and Grill.
Employees coming in and out of the building Sunday afternoon declined to comment and said the owner did not wish to speak with reporters.
Darnell Rodgers, who lives nearby and grew up in the area, said he used to go to Slade’s but hadn’t been there for several years.
“That’s really sad,” he said of the shooting, as he stood outside a convenience store and looked across Tremont Street at the entrance to the bar.
Rodgers said he feels his neighborhood has lost a sense of community that was more present when he was growing up.
“It’s like, you can’t look at anyone anymore, you don’t feel safe, you don’t feel comfortable with the neighbors,” he said. “Even when there’s been crime, it still felt neighborly because you knew the majority of the people in the neighborhood. But now there’s no neighbors. It’s like every man for yourself.”
The Rev. Kevin Peterson, founder of the New Democracy Coalition and an outspoken advocate for curbing crime in Boston’s Black communities, said he’d been at Slade’s just last week and described it as a longtime gathering place in the neighborhood.
“Slade’s has a special place in the hearts of people in the Black community,” he told reporters outside the restaurant on Sunday. “We affectionately know it as a place where we can come and relax and enjoy friendships.
“So I am deeply saddened … [and] we are deeply disturbed that there were two shootings here and that a person died,” Peterson added. “It speaks to the ongoing violence within the Black community about which there has been no significant response.”
Drusela Gomes has lived in the Dorchester neighborhood where the woman was found since 2010 and said security in the area has declined since she moved in with her family.
“Lately, over the past few years, I’ve heard gunshots and stuff but this was devastating knowing that they declared someone dead,” she said.
Gomes has two teenagers and a toddler, and their home looks out over the basketball court and playground that sits in the middle of the development where the woman’s body was found.
“It’s very scary to bring them to the park because you don’t know what’s going to happen,” she said. “They might be passing by looking for someone.”
Gomes said she was home Saturday night when she heard a burst of gunfire outside.
“You couldn’t count them,” she said of the gunshots.
Several other residents who live near the Dorchester scene said they didn’t know about the shooting until learning about it from news outlets that morning.
One woman who lives in a building across Franklin Hill Avenue said she was shocked to learn what happened Sunday morning when her 37-year-old son called her and came over from Cambridge to check on her.
“I was watching TV [Saturday night] and didn’t hear nothing,” said the woman, who did not want her name published. “My son called me today and said ‘Momma, are you okay?’
“I’ve lived here for nine years and everything’s been okay,” she said. “I stay in my house except to go to church or shopping.”
A memorial to the victim was set up along a walkway at the corner of Fermoy Heights and Shandon Road, near a small park in the middle of the housing development. White candles and bouquets of flowers were placed on the ground, beneath five white balloons and a pink balloon with “I love you” printed on it.
Police urge anyone with information to contact homicide detectives at 617-343-4470. Anonymous tips can be left by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 800-494-TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463).
Nick Stoico can be reached at nick.stoico@globe.com. Ramsey Khalifeh can be reached at ramsey.khalifeh@globe.com.