Father, college student ID'd as victims of double-fatal Jamaica Plain shooting

BOSTON — Boston police are continuing to search for whoever shot and killed two men in Jamaica Plain Friday night.

Investigators said the men, a 58-year-old father and Salem State University student, were innocent victims of a gang-related shooting.

Police have been tirelessly investigating the incident since it was reported at the Jamaica Plain Housing Complex on Centre Street.

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Officers on patrol said they heard gunshots ring out and immediately responded to the scene. That’s where they found 58-year-old Clayborn Blair and 23-year-old Christopher Joyce.

Both men were taken to a hospital where they died.

“For what? We have no answers,” Shari Frazier said. “We don’t know why it happened. We don’t know what happened, but the family is hurting. We lost two people at one time.”

Joyce was an accounting major at Salem State and was set to graduate May 19.

Relatives said he would have been the first member of their family to graduate college.

"Our thoughts are with his family and with the students who are suffering from a loss of a friend and classmate," a university spokesperson said in a statement. "We mourn the loss of Chris together, as a community.  Support services are available for our students, faculty, and staff, and we ask that our campus have privacy at this time to grieve this tragic loss.”

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call police immediately.

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