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Jamaica Plain Shooting, Stabbing Victims ID'd

JAMAICA PLAIN (CBS) -- The three people killed in a shooting and stabbing at a pizza shop in Jamaica Plain Sunday have been identified.

Police say the three people who were killed are Winzisky Soto, 27 of Dorchester, Ariel Dume, 20 of East Boston and Johnnel Cruz, 20 of Boston.

A fourth person who was shot was treated and released from the hospital.

Police were called to Same Old Place restaurant on Centre Street Sunday night when witnesses say an argument between three men started inside the shop and then shots were fired outside.

According to police, two men were seated at a table, when a third man entered the restaurant, and approached the two seated men. There were angry words, then a knife was pulled, then a gun.

The man who was stabbed was considering a suspect in the shooting.

The deaths bring the number of Boston homicide victims this year to 70, which is 50 percent higher than this time last year, according to police department statistics.

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