RANDOLPH, Mass. (AP) – A man was shot and killed outside a South Shore dance club early Sunday morning in what authorities say is the town’s first street killing in more than a decade.
Joseph Lopes, 23, of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, was among clubgoers who spilled out of the Copa Grande as the Randolph club was shutting down around 2 a.m.
Lopes was shot several times in the parking lot, toward the back of the club, which is on Main Street near the town center. The shooter apparently targeted Lopes, said Norfolk District Attorney William R. Keating.
“From the circumstances that surrounded the incident, it appears very likely that this was not a random shooting,” he said.
Witnesses saw the suspect fleeing. Keating declined to say whether the man was on foot or in a car.
Keating said police described the shooting as the first street killing in Randolph in about 13 years, although there have been other more recent domestic killings in the town.
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