A 19-year-old Jamaica Plain, Boston, gang member was sentence to seven years in prison on Monday for shooting two women at a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) station last January, according to CBS Boston.
Reginald Price, who was 18 at the time of the shooting, injured two women aged 24 and 62 during his attack, according to CBS Boston. He pleaded guilty to three counts of armed assault with intent to murder.
Price had reportedly gotten into an argument on the day of the shooting and had initially left the transport station but returned later on with someone else, according to Jamaica Plain News.
The argument was allegedly between Price and members of another gang and escalated to the point that Price drew a gun and began firing into the crowded station, according to Jamaica Plain News.
Price failed to hit the rival gang members that he was aiming at but grazed the 24-year-old woman in the head with a bullet and shot the older woman in the abdomen, according to the statement released by Suffolk County District Attorney.
"We sometimes hear that victims were in the wrong place at the wrong time," Suffolk Country District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said in the statement, "but a subway station isn't the wrong place and in the middle of the afternoon isn't the wrong time. But for the grace of God and Boston EMS, this could have been a double homicide case."
Both victims gave statements to the court, with the 24-year-old stating that after the attack "I lost my sense of safety, my feeling of comfort in my own home, my sense of security," according to the Boston Globe.
The 62-year-old submitted a written impact statement telling the courts that the attack had left her depressed and unable to carry out many daily tasks, according to the Boston Globe.
"My mind is not the same as before," she wrote in the statement. "The anxiety and the depression make living life very difficult and at times I feel like I've lost the will to live."
