EVERETT, MA. (THECOUNT) — Authorities confirm Everett High School has been placed on lockdown following a deadly shooting in the city on Wednesday.

Middlesex County officials said officers responded Wednesday morning to Central Avenue in Everett, MA, for a report of a fatal shooting.

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Nearby Everett High School in the area of Central Avenue & Myrtle Street, EVERETT, MA.source

Central Avenue is blocked off at Myrtle Street. Neighbors told her they heard two or three shots.

Everett is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, directly north of Boston, bordering the neighborhood of Charlestown. The population was 41,668 at the time of the 2010 United States Census, source Wikipedia.

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