Shooting leads to brief lockdown at Blue Hills Regional Technical School

CANTON, Mass. — Police in Massachusetts are investigating a reported shooting involving two drivers that led to a short lockdown at a nearby high school.

Canton Chief Kenneth Berkowitz says his department received a 911 call just before noon Friday from a caller who said she saw a man get out of a white SUV and fire several rounds into a black sedan.

"The two cars stopped and there was some kind of an altercation and one party fired several rounds into the other vehicle," Berkowitz said.

When officers arrived at the site of the reported shooting, on York Street near the intersection of Randolph Street, both vehicles were gone. Officers found what the chief described as "ballistic evidence," indicating that there had been a shooting.

He says Blue Hills Regional Technical School was locked down briefly.

A witness, who did not want to reveal her name or face, said she nearly drove into the shooting in front of her house.

"I heard about five or six gunshots," the woman said. "A man came out of his car and started shooting towards another car."

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Both vehicles fled, but not before the witness inadvertently blocked the street.

"I was pulling out of my driveway, and as he was trying to leave the scene, my car blocked him," the woman said.

The shooting remains under investigation. There were no reports of injuries.

“It’s difficult for me to believe with such a small space, with so many rounds fired, that somebody would not have been hit," Berkowitz said. "But we are hoping no one was hit."

Police checked area hospitals for anyone who checked themselves in, but came up without a victim. The shooter remains at large, and the woman who saw it all remains unnerved.

"I'm scared, mostly because of how close I came to it," the woman said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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