Lynn slaying marks violent weekend

LYNN – An Olive Street man was a victim early Saturday morning in a weekend of gun violence that later left neighbors on Summer Street horrified after shots rang out on Sunday afternoon, according to police.Tony Pich, 21, of 1 Olive St., Lynn, was shot while standing on his front porch shortly before 2:30 a.m. Saturday, according to Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett’s Office.After the shooting, Pich’s family members drove him to North Shore Medical Center in Salem, where he was pronounced dead at about 3 a.m., said DA spokesman Steve O’Connell.Police have previously identified 1 Olive St. as a Crip gang house but authorities haven’t said if the homicide was gang-related.”Police are exploring all possibilities in this case,” O’Connell said.O’Connell says Lynn police are asking for the public’s help in locating the suspect. No arrests have been made.”Anybody with any information is urged to call the Lynn police,” he said.The murder marks Lynn’s sixth official homicide of 2008. There were five homicides in all of 2007.Click here to an interactive map of Lynn murders from 2007-2008.Another weekend shooting, in which no one was believed to be injured, rocked the area of Breed Square shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday, where police responded to 528 Summer St. on a report of shots fired.Initial police reports indicate a gunfight broke out between Asian males in their late teens. At one point during the gunfire, one of the suspects allegedly hopped on top of a Cadillac Escalade SUV that had pulled over due to the gunfire. A woman inside ducked as one of the suspects allegedly fired shots while standing on the hood of her car.”They physically got on my sister’s car,” said a nearby female resident at the scene who declined to give her name. “The woman who you heard on the [police] scanner, that was my sister.”Crime scene investigators were on the scene for several hours investigating the incident.Police focused primarily on a house at 514-516 Summer St. The fire department was called in to conduct a “well-being check” on a teenager who wouldn’t answer the door inside.Multiple gun shell casings were found strewn on Summer Street between Breed Square and Light Street, which was closed for several hours late Sunday afternoon.No arrests have been made in either shooting.