2 wounded in Lynn shooting

LYNN – Police said at least two people were hit by gunfire at a shooting at a Hanover Street building on Saturday night. The following afternoon, some people at the building said they were sick of the violence at the address.Police responded to 38 Hanover Street at 9:53 p.m. Saturday to a report of gunshots, according to Lynn Police Lt. John Scannell.He reported at least two people were hit by gunfire and suffered unknown injuries. Scannell said police have not arrested any suspects as of Sunday afternoon, and it was not known at that time if the incident appeared to be random or if the persons allegedly involved knew each other.People interviewed at the building said the shooting occurred on the front steps of the property and was the second violent incident at the address in a week.A man was stabbed when trying to break up a domestic incident at the property last Wednesday, according to Lynn Police Lt. John Dean. Edwin Magenst-Wiscowic, 32, of 100 Willow St., was arrested and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, a knife, at 12:45 a.m. Thursday, in connection with the incident.”I’m scared. I want out of this place,” said resident Laura Gomez, sitting on the building’s stoop on Sunday. “I don’t even have people come and visit me, this place is bad.”The building is one of two apparently identical buildings set behind a parking lot on Hanover Street just as the street becomes one-way and curves towards the north side of Lynn Common. On the other side of the parking lot, an empty building on Hanover Circle remains boarded up from a fire July 4. Gomez said there was another burned-out building behind the Hanover Street buildings. Yet children and young adults chatted and rode bikes in the parking lot and hung out on the front steps of the buildings.Property records list 18 units in each of the buildings, which were built circa 1968.Gomez said she had come outside to sit on the front stoop of the building on Sunday afternoon because the stoop’s usual occupants were away and laying low due to the alleged shooting.She said the building needed more security: the maintenance people were good, but could not keep up with doors whose locks were broken everyday. She said management had apparently told tenants that they didn’t want people hanging around on the stoop, due to problems at the property.”Now you can’t sit in front or back of your house on a hot day, you got to be inside,” she said.She said the building needed cameras. She said police had increased patrols in the area, but officers didn’t need to “bother” the good people at the building, they had to deal with those allegedly causing problems.Jonathan Brown said he comes to the building to visit friends and an uncle. Sunday, he stayed at the periphery of the lot, saying he was waiting as his 16-year-old daughter visited her friend.He blamed the shooting and trouble at the building on a group of teenage men who didn’t live at the building but usually came and sat outside on the front steps with friends. He said the young men have grown up “wanting to be thugs.””It ain’t no different here than in Boston, it’s just on a smaller scale,” Brown said. But he said the neighborhood used to be a lot better.Gomez said she could deal with “the rats, roaches, mice and bedbugs” she had heard of and seen in the building – but, she made clear, not in her apartment, where she has lived for more than a year. The violence was another matter.”I’d rather deal with that than have people shooting and stabbing each other,” she said. She said she would visit the landlord’s office in the morning. A number for the listed property owner could not be found on Sunday evening.”Fourteen months here have been pure hell, the shooting topped it off,” Gomez said.