Lynn man shot, killed

LYNN – Officials said a 32-year-old city man was shot to death in his Grant Street apartment early Saturday morning, shocking some residents of the street.”There’s never really been any major things around here, that really surprises me,” Grant Street resident Melinda Burns said Sunday afternoon upon hearing the news.A spokesperson from Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett’s office identified the deceased as Wilner Parisse, 32, of 45 Grant St. #2.Lynn Police responded to that address at 1:47 a.m. Saturday and found the deceased with a gunshot wound to the torso, district attorney spokeswoman Carrie Kimball-Monahan said Sunday.Kimball-Monahan reported no arrests had been made as of Sunday evening, and the incident remains under investigation by Lynn Police and Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Essex district attorney’s office.Nobody answered the doorbell at the apartment Sunday afternoon and calls to Parisse’s family were not answered.Grant Street Neighbor Kathleen Terranova recalled Parisse, whom she and her family called “Will,” as well mannered and respectful.”He was a nice guy, a polite gentleman…he used to always say ?hi’ to the kids,” Terranova said.Terranova said Parisse would even walk her back from the corner store.Terranova said her husband had just seen Parisse and his girlfriend last week while running errands, and then she saw a Facebook post Sunday from Parisse’s girlfriend with the hashtag #stoptheviolence. But she said they didn’t think the post could have been referring to Will.”It’s very sad, I didn’t know him (well) but what I know of him is that he was always respectful to us as adults,” Terranova said. She said he “wasn’t a punk” or “somebody who walked around with his pants around his knees.”Terranova said several law enforcement officials lived on the street, and she said the most notable aspect of the brown triple-decker where the homicide occurred was that she was scared of the pit bulls in the second-floor apartment.Burns said the home next door to the deceased’s apartment building had frequent turnover and she “kind of always had an eye out” for problems at that building.But she said of the neighborhood overall, “it’s been pretty quiet.”