--One man was shot to death and two were wounded in Dorchester last night. One resident told the Herald that the man was exactly who the shooters were looking for, and they shoved him into the hallway of an apartment building on Shandon Road and started firing. Two men were killed at that spot back in July. Last night's victim is the 49th homicide of the year.

Later last night, two other people were shot at the intersection of Bowdoin and Geneva, and another was stabbed in the hand in Roxbury when someone tried to steal his car.

--A 13-year-old girl from Walpole died in a terrible accident involving an NSTAR truck. The girl was riding in front of a utility yard, and the driver couldn't see her.

--A fire in Everett that destroyed a Middle Eastern food market and left 20 people homeless yesterday morning is now being treated as an arson case. The Al Manara market had been open for only six months. Investigators have been quick to say that, even though it was arson, the Elalami family wasn't targeted.

--The DA's office sent word that a BU student was injured by a drunk driver on Saturday morning. The driver, Kim Jeonghyun, of Brookline, was driving down Comm Ave with her lights off. She then plowed into the victim, who was getting out of a cab at the Shaw's on Packard's Corner, and kept going until she struck two parked cars.

--Unfortunately, the whole weekend was marred by drunk driving. 20-year-old Matthew Galvin, of Leicester, had a .22 blood alcohol level as he was driving his truck. He crossed the line and hit another car, killing 18-year-old Ilia-Marie Rosado of Worcester. Two other people in Rosado's car are in critical condition.

--Now that we're thoroughly depressed, the BPD Blotter offers something slightly amusing. An aspiring teenage robber in a Jamaica Plain convenience store asked the clerk "Why are you so mean?" when he tried to buy cigarettes and the clerk asked for ID. Then he tried to rob the place, but was unsuccessful. And the BPD gave a prostitution sting the best name ever - "Operation Squeeze."

All charges alleged until proven under law.