Four Gunned Down in a Boston Basement

Investigators in Boston were searching for suspects in the city’s bloodiest crime in a decade after four men were fatally shot in a basement that neighbors said was used as practice space by a rap group.

Three men were found dead at the house and a fourth died at a hospital, Police Supt. Bobbie Johnson said. The men were in their late teens and early 20s.

“It’s much too early to speculate on a motive in this incident,” Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole said. “But generally speaking, homicides occurring inside residences are seldom random acts of violence.”

Boston’s 71 homicides this year are the most in a decade.