by Neil W. McCabe
At or around midnight today, five gunshots were heard coming from the area behind the Peabody School and the Walden Street Apartments.
"They came from right there," said a resident of the Walden Street Apartments, who leaned out of her first floor window to point to the grass patch on her side of the underpass leading to Peabody School.
"They were loud shots. It sounded like a gun-gun," she said.
The woman said the shots were so close that when she looked out the window, a young man in baggy pants nearby was checking to make sure he had not been shot.
A security guard at the apartments said there were four young men outside at the gun went off. There were two on bikes and two others who ran across the the apartment grounds and climbed over a fence.
After the two boys on bikes returned to the area, they turned down the underpass where they were stopped for questioning, said City Police Officer John Lang.
At the time of the shots, officers were converging on vehicle on Raymond Street with a cache of interesting goods, he said.
The police received at least 20 calls reporting the shots with at least five cruisers responding within minutes, he said.
As of this posting, no injuries or property damage from gun shots had been reported, he said.
The matter remains under investigation.
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