An early-morning triple shooting in Dorchester that left one man dead and two others hospitalized has police turning to the public for help and residents who live near the scene of the crime rattled — including one woman who said she awoke to find a bullet hole inches away from her window.

“They shot in front of my window. And I was just sitting there. I don’t know more than that,” a shaken Sonia Vasquez told the Herald in Spanish yesterday as investigators searched the area for clues.

“I feel a little worried because I have three children, three grandchildren, one adult and one that has autism.”

Vasquez, 53, said frequent shootings in her neighborhood have her and her family living in fear.

“I don’t look out the window much because I know what goes on out there,” Vasquez said, adding that the gunfire woke up her granddaughter.

Hub cops responding to a report of a person shot near the intersection of Nightingale and Wales streets about 2:18 a.m. say they found three men, all in their 20s, suffering apparent gunshot wounds. One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene and the other two were rushed by ambulance to area hospitals to be treated for what police say appear to be non-life-threatening injuries.

Cynthia Francis, a resident on nearby Kingsdale Street and founder of the newly formed ?Talbot Harvard Triangle Community group, said she has lived in the area for 50 years and would like to see more done to make the neighborhood safe for kids.

“We would like more cameras and we would like this lit up for the people to feel safe because the darkness is breeding a lot of undercover things that shouldn’t be happening,” Francis said. “We’ve got to go back to the basics because these kids have lost their social skills … We need to work on their conflict-resolution and problem-solving skills.”

Francis said her group is ?organizing a meeting with nearby business owners in the hopes of encouraging them to buy surveillance cameras. She also said the group will work to encourage eyewitnesses to come forward and help investigators whenever violence occurs in their neighborhood.

“I want to see kids playing on the street again,” Francis said. “We can’t deal with the issues unless people come out and tell us what it is that’s going on.”

Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call the Boston Police Homicide Unit at 617-343-4470.

Those wishing to offer anonymous tips can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at ?800-494-TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463).