A 14-year-old girl who ran away from her foster home was killed in a drive-by shooting, police said. Dymond McGowan was shot in the stomach late Thursday night, a few hours after her foster mother called police to report her as a runaway, police spokeswoman Jennifer Flagg said. She was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center. Flagg said the girl was hanging out in front of a house with people who were drinking and smoking marijuana throughout the day and evening. Police were still investigating the girl’s relationship with the half-dozen people she was with. Police officials had few details about McGowan.
Denise Monteiro, spokeswoman for the state Department of Social Services, said the girl had been in DSS custody since February. She declined to discuss specifics, but said the placement was not because of abuse or neglect by the girl’s biological family. McGowan had first been placed in a group home in Arlington, then moved to a foster family where she was "doing very well," Monteiro said. The first sign of any trouble was last night when she did not come home by her curfew and her foster mother called police, she said. A 29-year-old Springfield man also was hit in the shooting and was treated for a wound to his knee and released from Baystate on Friday. His name was not being released because he was a witness, but Flagg said authorities "would not be surprised" if he was the intended target. The man had been arraigned in criminal court 26 times on a slew of charges including witness intimidation, assault and battery and burglary, Flagg said. He is currently on probation, but Flagg did not know for what crime. Flagg said police were still searching for a suspect Friday afternoon, but the gunman was described as a black male wearing a hooded sweat shirt. There were three or four people in the white sedan that drove by the crowd during the shooting. Flagg didn’t know how many shots were fired, and police would not say what type of gun was used.
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