West Lynners seek solutions to shooting spree

LYNN – Angela Krzywiski grew up in West Lynn; she knows there are plenty of good people living there and she wants to know how they can help prevent more shootings like the ones echoing down West Lynn streets this past weekend.
?Maybe we need a crime watch,” she said Monday as she talked about how her daughter plays in Warren Street playground, a site of several shootings in the last several years.
The weekend crime spree left at least four people injured, including one man transported to Massachusetts General Hospital with a chest wound.
Beginning on Neptune Street at 8 p.m. Saturday and continuing through 5 a.m. Sunday, shots rang out on Lawton Avenue, Lowell Street, two corners on the Commons and Sheridan Street, shattering windows and leaving West Lynn residents like William Entwine shaking their heads.
He’s lived in the Elm Street area for 42 years and remembers trouble along the streets and adjoining ones during his youth. Local kids, he said, need more local activities especially since the Gregg House relocated its West Lynn site to Broad Street.
?They see older kids’ behavior and hear kids talking about the shootings in school,” he said.
There are after school and evening options for West Lynn youth: The YMCA runs an after school program and police officers helped start a weekend night gathering place for teens in the Lynn Vocational Technical Institute field house.
Connery School parent Joseph Sullivan wants to see police get guns off the street as part of their effort to rid the city of crime.
A shooting spate a year ago that left one man dead prompted a multiplelaw enforcement agency response leading to arrest and crack downs on individuals with prior brushes with the law.