By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer BROCKTON — An 18-year-old man was shot to death and another teen wounded on Main Street near the high rise apartments in the city's Campello section late Monday night.
The identity of the dead man was not released pending confirmation that relatives were notified. He is believed to be from Brockton.
He was found in the parking lot at 1380 Main St. shortly after 11:30 p.m. Monday and rushed to Brockton Hospital where he died.
The wounded teen, whose name was not immediately available, was taken to an undisclosed hospital. His condition was not immediately available.
Based on preliminary reports, authorities believe the two may have been shot while they were in a vehicle.
It was not clear if the suspect or suspects were in another vehicle or fled in a vehicle.
Police were called to the parking lot at 1380 Main St. to investigate a possible shooting around 11:30 p.m. Monday.
Authorities were looking investigating whether the shooting occurred on the street nearby.
First Assistant District Attorney Frank Middleton said authorities were still gathering evidence in the slaying.
At least a dozen vehicles were discovered shot up on Green Place just blocks from where the victim was found but it was unclear this morning if the cases were related.
“There's a big hole in the window . . . Nobody heard it,” said Kim Inslee, the owner of one of the vehicles damaged. She said she discovered the damage to her van this morning.
The slaying does not appear to be tied to the killing last week of 22-year-old Loudgy Colas who was shot to death in his girlfriend's apartment during what authorities say was a botched marijuana deal, Middleton said.
Two men were arraigned in that slaying Monday afternoon.
It was not known of the two slayings were linked.
The shooting death Monday night was the fifth homicide in the city this year.
'They took him': John P. Lima was gunned down Monday night as he sat in a car in Brockton; view story to see video
By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer BROCKTON — The call that woke Ana Correia was quick.
“They said John got shot in the chest,” she said. “They told me to go to the hospital ... I hung up the phone and went.”
With her family by her side at Brockton Hospital early Tuesday, Correia learned her 18-year-old brother, John P. Lima, was dead — shot to death in a car outside the high-rise apartments in the city's Campello section.
The hours that followed have moved in slow motion for Correia and her family as they try to understand why he was killed.
“You hear about this happening,” Correia, 28, said. “When it happens inside your house, it hurts.”
Lima was shot about 11:30 p.m. Monday, when, witnesses said, a gunman jumped out of a car and pumped several shots into the vehicle he was in. By the time Lima's family got to the hospital, he was dead.
Dozens of friends and relatives gathered at the family's apartment on Huntington Street on Tuesday; many were overwhelmed by grief.
His mother, Arminda Lima, was wrapped in the embrace of a relative. Correia, one of Lima's seven siblings, was wrapped in a blanket in the bedroom as a family friend flipped through family photographs
Teenagers and young children lined the back hallway, the back porch and driveway, many red-eyed.
It is a scene repeated time after time in the city.
“It is very troubling,” Police Chief William Conlon said. “It is pervasive. It is not just Brockton. It is everywhere. Similar-sized cities have similar-sized problems ... It is almost like a carbon copy in each of the cities. I wish I knew what fuels all of this.”
Bristol County District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, who took office in January, said the issue touches nearly every city in the state and country and those involved in the criminal justice field are trying to find soluations.
Shooting at Brockton housing complex has elderly worried
By Maureen Boyle, Enterprise staff writer BROCKTON — Bill Quinn knew the gunfire was close by.
He didn't realize how close until he looked out his window and saw a car pulling away and a police cruiser pulling up seconds later.
“I thought a bullet was going to come through my glass window,” the 64-year-old man said.
As police Tuesday tried to learn who shot an 18-year-old Brockton man to death outside the Campello high-rise apartments, residents in the Main Street complex housing elderly and handicapped residents say the killing so close to home is unnerving.
“People are afraid,” said Ethema Mars, one of the residents.
John P. Lima, 18, of Huntington Street was fatally wounded when, witnesses said, he was shot by a gunman who walked up to the car he was driving and opened fire Monday night.
The Plymouth County District Attorney's Office said Lima appeared to suffer multiple gunshot wounds.
Witnesses said the car carrying Lima pulled into the lot at 1380 Main St. about 11:30 p.m. Monday, apparently trying to elude people in at least one other vehicle who were firing upon it.
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