In the early hours of December 27, 2018, a burst of gunfire in the Mattapan neighborhood of Boston set in motion a tragic chain of events. Eighteen-year-old Myssiah Pledger, a Black / African American male, was caught in the violence that erupted on Astoria Street shortly after 12:30 a.m. In the aftermath of the shooting, a car was discovered a short distance away in the area of 7 Dyer Street in Dorchester.
Inside the vehicle, police found two individuals who had been shot. One of them, s
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