Police search for shooter who killed student near Boston school

BOSTON (AP) — Police are searching for a suspect in a brazen daylight shooting near a Boston high school that left one student dead and three other people wounded.

Shots rang out Wednesday afternoon near Jeremiah E. Burke High School in the city's Dorchester neighborhood just after a fire alarm went off inside the school.

"We don't know whether it was just a fight that spilled out of the school. Unfortunately, as we know now, kids don't fight anymore with their hands. They run and get weapons," Police Commissioner William Evans said in an afternoon news conference.

Students said they heard six or seven shots. When the gunfire stopped, a 17-year-old student was dead and two other teens and a 67-year-old woman were wounded.

"When a 17-year-old dies on the street, coming out of school, then we all should be outraged, and shame on anybody who doesn't step up to the plate and help us solve this," Evans said.

Police and city officials called on the community to help them identify whoever was responsible.