A Boston woman marching in a parade was shot in the head and killed on Saturday morning, police said.Watch NewsCenter 5 reportPolice spokeswoman Rachel McGuire said officers responding to reports of gunfire shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday found a woman suffering from gunshot wounds in the area of Charlotte and Blue Hill Avenues in the Dorchester neighborhood.Dawnn Jaffier, 26, had been marching in the Jouvert parade for Boston's annual Caribbean Carnival. She had stepped off to the side of the parade at some point and was shot in the head, according to police. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.Police said Jaffier was "completely innocent.""One of our beautiful, productive citizens was lost to a senseless act of violence," Deputy Police Chief William Gross said.Jaffier was a University of Massachusetts-Amherst graduate and coached at a Boys & Girls Club."I love working with kids and have been working with kids since I was 14," Jaffier told City Year Boston in an interview last year about her work in the community. "My main goal is to work with kids, no matter what setting I'm in.""I'm going to have to bury my angel," Jaffier's father said at a press conference on Saturday afternoon."A second bullet grazed the leg of a woman a few blocks away, police said. She was treated and released from a hospital, police said.Keith Williams, 18, of Dorchester, has been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the shooting.Anyone with information is asked to call police.

A Boston woman marching in a parade was shot in the head and killed on Saturday morning, police said.

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Police spokeswoman Rachel McGuire said officers responding to reports of gunfire shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday found a woman suffering from gunshot wounds in the area of Charlotte and Blue Hill Avenues in the Dorchester neighborhood.

Dawnn Jaffier, 26, had been marching in the Jouvert parade for Boston's annual Caribbean Carnival. She had stepped off to the side of the parade at some point and was shot in the head, according to police. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Police said Jaffier was "completely innocent."

"One of our beautiful, productive citizens was lost to a senseless act of violence," Deputy Police Chief William Gross said.

Jaffier was a University of Massachusetts-Amherst graduate and coached at a Boys & Girls Club.

"I love working with kids and have been working with kids since I was 14," Jaffier told City Year Boston in an interview last year about her work in the community. "My main goal is to work with kids, no matter what setting I'm in."

"I'm going to have to bury my angel," Jaffier's father said at a press conference on Saturday afternoon."

A second bullet grazed the leg of a woman a few blocks away, police said. She was treated and released from a hospital, police said.

Keith Williams, 18, of Dorchester, has been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the shooting.

Anyone with information is asked to call police.