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Deja vu for Lynn shootings
By Robin Kaminski/The Daily Item
LYNN - The summer season is off to an eerily similar and bloody start as it was last year in Lynn.
Almost one year ago to the day a spate of shootings and stabbings erupted on city streets, and over the weekend, eight separate shootings occurred with at least four victims hospitalized.
The explosion of violence began around 8 p.m. Saturday and continued until nearly 5 a.m. Sunday — the exact same time frame as last years shooting spree.
The first shots rang out on Neptune Street Saturday, where two male teenagers were shot, one in the abdomen who was taken to Salem Hospital, and the other in the chest, who was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. The suspects reportedly fled in a gray Nissan.
Gunfire continued on Lawton Avenue, then Lowell Street, North Common at Park streets, Elm at South Common and Sheridan streets. A vehicle with a shattered window from a gunshot was found on Sheridan St., which Lynn Police had towed to the station as evidence.
According to a source close to the Lynn Police, the department and the State Police Gang Unit will be stepping up patrols in the city to prevent possible retaliation waged by the brother’s of the victims.
A resident of Neptune Street, who declined to give her name out of fear of reprisal, said she saw Chrisna “Crazy” Choon and Peroun Cheer, get shot while they were walking to a corner market, and speculated that it was a Bloods vs. Crips gang incident.
“Someone was walking behind them, and when they noticed him, they (Choon and Cheer) started running and the guy pulled out a gun and shot them,” she said. “I’ve known them since middle school, and I know that they were fighting over another shooting that happened. Peroun just got out of jail too. I knew something was going to happen, it never ends.”
Another reported victim caught in the crossfire, was Isaiah Rieves, of Lynn, and another only known by a last name of So.
Last year, Rieves claimed he was kicked in the face by a Lynn police officer after he was already subdued on the ground by another officer during a melee at 85 Sheridan St., which is known by police as a “Crip gang house” and the site of several gang-related shootings.
No arrests had been made in the multiple shootings as of Sunday night.
Last year, on June 8, five people were shot, one fatally behind Lynn City Hall, and another person stabbed in four separate incidents.
Rafael Andino, 43, died from a gunshot wound to the head.
After the four violent episodes, enforcement agencies conducted a massive criminal sweep, resulting in over 100 arrests of some taken in on warrants, others after police observed suspicious behavior, and others from areas labeled as “hot spots.”
West Lynners seek solutions to shooting spree
By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item
LYNN - Angela Krzywiski grew up in West Lynn; she knows there are plenty of good people living there and she wants to know how they can help prevent more shootings like the ones echoing down West Lynn streets this past weekend.
“Maybe we need a crime watch,” she said Monday as she talked about how her daughter plays in Warren Street playground, a site of several shootings in the last several years.
The weekend crime spree left at least four people injured, including one man transported to Massachusetts General Hospital with a chest wound.
Beginning on Neptune Street at 8 p.m. Saturday and continuing through 5 a.m. Sunday, shots rang out on Lawton Avenue, Lowell Street, two corners on the Commons and Sheridan Street, shattering windows and leaving West Lynn residents like William Entwine shaking their heads.
He's lived in the Elm Street area for 42 years and remembers trouble along the streets and adjoining ones during his youth. Local kids, he said, need more local activities especially since the Gregg House relocated its West Lynn site to Broad Street.
“They see older kids' behavior and hear kids talking about the shootings in school,” he said.
There are after school and evening options for West Lynn youth: The YMCA runs an after school program and police officers helped start a weekend night gathering place for teens in the Lynn Vocational Technical Institute field house.
Connery School parent Joseph Sullivan wants to see police get guns off the street as part of their effort to rid the city of crime.
A shooting spate a year ago that left one man dead prompted a multiple law enforcement agency response leading to arrest and crack downs on individuals with prior brushes with the law.