BRAINTREE, Mass. — School officials are making grief counselors available to students during the school holidays after two teenagers, one of them a 16-year-old Braintree High School student, were shot and killed in Braintree during the weekend.
Jahzier Porter, 16, of Braintree, and Jayden Santos-Andrade, 19, of Dorchester, were shot to death in a car on Alfred Road in Braintree early Sunday morning, the district attorney said. Investigators are looking for the gunman or gunmen who killed the teenagers.
“We have detectives on the ground in Braintree and state police trying to gather evidence of what happened and who may have been involved,” Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey said Sunday.
Around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, police received several 911 calls from area residents reporting shots fired on Alfred Road. When officers arrived, they found the two teenagers in a car with gunshot wounds, the district attorney said. A third person in the car was not injured.
Porter and Santos-Andrade were taken by ambulance to a local hospital, where they later died, the district attorney said.
Meanwhile, counselors at Braintree High School, where Porter was a student, are available for any student who may need support at this time, Braintree Schools Superintendent James Lee said in a statement Monday.
“Yesterday, the Braintree Police Department notified Braintree High School and Braintree Public Schools administration of the sudden and tragic death of a BPS student,” Lee said. “While the details of the incident remain the subject of an active police investigation, our thoughts and prayers go out to the student’s family, friends and all those affected by this tragedy.”
“The BHS Counseling Department is also ready to assist any student who needs support at this time. Although school is not currently in session, any student or family in need of assistance should contact Braintree Public Schools to get in touch with a counselor for support,” Lee said.
Braintree Police are asking anyone with information or video they believe is relevant to this investigation to call the Norfolk State Police Detective Unit at 781-830-4990 or the State Police Detective Division at Braintree at 781-794-8620.
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