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Shooting Victim, 20, Dies

Shooting Is City's 24th Homicide Of Year

POSTED: 4:55 pm EDT May 28, 2008
UPDATED: 5:14 pm EDT May 28, 2008

A 20-year-old Boston man died Wednesday after he was shot in the city's Dorchester neighborhood.

Boston police said they received a call about a shooting at 243 Bowdoin St. Wednesday afternoon and found a man with gunshot wounds.

The man was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Wednesday's fatal shooting is the city's 24th homicide of the year.

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