One Stoughton High School student killed, another injured in Mattapan shooting

One of the victims in a series of shootings in Boston was a rising 12th-grader at a high school in suburban Massachusetts. Stoughton Public Schools officials said Saturday that Christian Cousins, a graduate of Stoughton High School’s class of 2025, was fatally shot Friday while hanging out with a classmate in Mattapan. The second student was also shot, but his injuries were described as non-life-threatening. School officials did not release the student’s name. Boston police said a shooting that left a man dead and a woman injured occurred shortly before 12:30 a.m. Friday near the intersection of Gladeside Ave. and Donwood Terrace in a tree-lined residential area of ​​Mattapan. Crime scene markings could be seen around a home and a vehicle that appeared to have driven through a fence. Police said the preliminary investigation into the shooting indicates it was not a random attack, but they did not provide any further information. A total of seven people were shot in Boston from Thursday night through Friday. Two of them were killed, including Cousins.