'Very good person': Family friend remembers victim in Dorchester shooting

BOSTON — Loved ones are pleading for justice after 24-year-old Alicia Restrepo was shot to death while sitting in her car in Dorchester on Monday, a casualty of a shooting where police believe she wasn't the intended target.

Restrepo was found dead, slumped in a car on Charles and Ditson streets after a number of shots rang out. Family and friends were left shocked by what transpired.

"This is a very good person, very good girl," family friend Jorge Villa said. "This is completely crazy."

Villa has been a close friend of the victim's family for about 20 years and has fond memories of Restrepo from when she was a little girl.

"She is so smart and a very good sister," Villa said. "Definitely very, very bad news. She does a lot of activity help everyone now I don’t understand what’s going on."

The shooting occurred in a residential neighborhood with a preschool nearby, and police do not have a motive for the shooting but believe she was not the intended target.

Neighbors said Retrespo was well-liked at the East Boston housing community where she lived with her mother. She leaves behind an older brother, and her family said the emotions were too raw for them to speak, but said they're hoping someone will come forward with information to help police.

Restrepo was the city's eighth homicide victim in less than two weeks, and the 47th in the city in 2018.

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There have been no arrests and police are asking anyone with information about the death to contact them.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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