Crime
Fall River Police investigating afternoon shooting where several shots were fired
Fall River Police are investigating an afternoon shooting in the city.
At approximately 4:00 p.m. a call came into dispatch for 6 shots fired in the area of 60 Tobin Street.
A witness stated that at least 14 evidence markers could be seen at the scene with a heavy police presence.
Deputy Chief Barden Castro stated that no injuries were reported.
The exact number of shots fired was not confirmed.
Detectives from the Major Crimes Division are actively investigating the incident and are following up on information today.
Fed Up
August 6, 2024 at 9:17 pm
Wow Moron Healey’s new gun laws don’t seem to have their intended effect. Who would’ve thought criminals don’t obey laws. I guess they didn’t get the memo. This state is getting worse by the day.
Ken Paiva
August 6, 2024 at 10:34 pm
I’m not much for going on feelings when it comes to issues. I look at statistics. I am certainly not anti-gun, but I often see this argument that you just used. Shootings still happen in pro gun states. A lot of them generally. According to statistics, generally, not always, states with high gun mortality have loose gun laws and states with tough gun laws have low gun deaths. RI and MA are consistently the two states with the lowest gun death rate in the country and they have tough gun laws. Is that because people are using knives to kill instead? Not likely. Is it because people down south are shooting so many people to death in self-defense? Also, not likely. While I respect the right to bear arms, and people for the most part should be able to, politicians, right or wrong, tend to institute tough gun laws because they see that in most cases they decrease gun deaths. Pro or anti-gun states will never stop all shootings. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/states-with-the-highest-gun-death-rates
Fed Up
August 7, 2024 at 8:39 am
It’s not the argument I used. It’s the argument that these politicians use as the reason they need to pass blatantly unconstitutional gun laws. They cite gang violence in Dorchester, Mattapan and Roxbury. They tout these gun laws will ” save lives ” It’s a lie. It punishers the wrong people. These are the exact same politicians who catch-and-release dangerous violent criminals back on the streets in the name of restorative justice. I urge you to read all 112 pages of this disaster they just passed. It effectively makes most law abiding citizens felons in waiting. These laws will NEVER pass constitutional muster and they know it. This is what makes them so devious because the state is cash strapped and now the tax payers will have to spend millions of dollars we don’t have defending this garbage. But they don’t care about it they got their headlines and their photo-ops. This state does NOT care about keeping it’s citizens safe. They release violent criminals repeatedly and allow in illegal aliens unchecked to rape & pillage the state. They care about optics. Vermont New Hampshire and Maine all have much looser gun laws than Massachusetts and has less deaths by guns. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
” To stop drunk drivers from killing sober drivers, Just prevent sober drivers from driving. That’s how gun control works. “
T
August 13, 2024 at 12:01 pm
If you’re so interested in saving lives. Alcohol kills 100 times the people that guns do. Where is the outcry for shutting down bars and liquor stores. You forgot to mention in your piece that there’s a difference between legal guns and illegal guns. Also you do realize your stats are a little twisted considering all southern states are 5x to 10x large in size and in population than MA and RI combined.
Ken Paiva
August 13, 2024 at 12:11 pm
Did you even look at the statistics? Its per 100,000 people.
Michelle
August 7, 2024 at 1:48 am
Well, when people get caught with ghost guns and just get ankle bracelets and probation, apparently they don’t care to go around shooting up our neighborhoods. We’ve had too many in recent years, too many. Sweep these streets and lock them up. Cops are doing their jobs and the courts spitting in our law enforcements faces by letting these losers right back out.
Fed Up
August 7, 2024 at 8:57 am
Exactly. That’s the crux of the problem. Bleeding heart judges D/As and politicians keep rereleasing violent criminals who just reoffend with impunity because they know they’ll be right back out.
Projects suck
August 7, 2024 at 7:23 am
Close to the projects so I’m not surprised. I support more affordable and public housing but it’s an extremely stupid policy to concentrate the poorest (and sometimes trashiest) people in a city in a few large housing projects. It should be more spread out with smaller individual buildings across the city.
Barrack Warren
August 7, 2024 at 9:50 am
We need to end all gun ownership. This will not be an overnight fix, but if we’re proactive and realistic throughout ten to fifteen years, we should be able to eliminate all private legal and illegal guns.
Many, especially MAGAs, are going to complain that eliminating guns will not solve the problem entirely – and I agree.
While we are working to remove all guns, an initiative should be launched to combat racism, sexism, and genderphobia and address white privilege.
Parity can be created by eliminating intergenerational wealth that has long favored whites. This will also help us through the housing crisis we are facing.
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August 7, 2024 at 4:54 pm
How about we address black privilege while we’re at it. You are Always spewing the same nonsense the poor people of color the poor trannies hate the white people. Get off your racists crap already. Oh and that’s right you only want the government to have guns and yet you cry about the corruption in the government. Do you even have any common sense or just working with one brain cell.
MassTexan
August 7, 2024 at 9:44 pm
This has to be satire. Absolute gold. If this person is serious, then check into your nearest mental health facility.
M
August 7, 2024 at 9:55 am
Most of these shootings are young adults and teens. Maybe if more money was put into more programs and ways to get these kids off the streets showing them another way of life with more positivity I guarantee gun violence out here would go down. It’s sad the fact some of these youth carry weapons as protection just to walk down the street not knowing what situation might occur. Influence is a very strong and real thing especially on young people. Positive action gets positive results.
Shea
August 7, 2024 at 10:23 am
They also have less people living in those states. Compare apples to apples.
Fed Up
August 7, 2024 at 1:43 pm
Irrelevant, The whole premise is stronger gun laws means less gun violence , Which is demonstrably false. California has some of the most oppressive gun laws in the country and has more mass shootings than any other state by far. These laws which punish only the law abiding and promised to curb gun violence and it’s a lie.