Lowell Violent Crime Mapping

05/02/2025

Last night, Lowell PD responded to a gun call on Bridge St where a bloody male was also found. The victim was taken to a local hospital, and this incident was later reported to be a shooting. A report for assault and battery with a weapon was filed. This is the 2nd shooting this week and third in 2 weeks in the city. Earlier this week, a gunshot victim arrived at Main Campus after being shot on Summer St.

Also yesterday, Lowell PD responded to a youth program in the city after a student was found to be in possession of a firearm. The gun was recovered and the student was taken into custody. This is the 2nd firearm related arrest to take place in the city this week. Earlier this week, a suspect reportedly stole a firearm while at a restaurant on Andover St. The suspect was reportedly arrested shortly after on the charge of larceny of a firearm.

All four of these incidents can be found at lowellvcm.com

04/29/2025

LowellVCM 2.0 is now live

Over the past few months, I have been working on remodeling lowellvcm.com to make it easier, faster, and overall a cleaner, more useful site. This is very much a work in progress as I plan on adding a few more pages and features until the site is fully done. If you notice any issues with the website or if you have any suggestions, do not hesitate to to reach out.

Some new features include:

1. Recent Crimes List

View crimes in a list sorted by their recency, or with the click of the switch, view recent crimes in a map format. Any crime (either in the list or on the map) can be clicked on to display more information. Crimes on this page can also be filtered by their date of occurrence. To make this page run smoothly, only crimes from the past year can be viewed.

2. Trends pages

Currently, only the Date & Time trends page has been released. On these pages, crimes can be filtered based on their time/date of occurrence, their location, and other crime characteristics. Once your filters are set, you can view numerous graphs that display trends in crimes as well as view multiple numerical breakdowns that can help give you a better idea of when and where crimes occurred. Unlike the last version of lowellvcm.com, these graphs and filters have been optimized to run as fast as possible, meaning you shouldn't have to wait long for graphs to be generated.

3. New Crime Updating Process

On the old version of the site, I had to fully reboot the site every time I wanted to add new crimes. This meant it would take a while for me to add crimes and I would usually add them in batches to limit the amount of downtime the site would experience. However, with this new site, crimes show up as soon as I add them. This means that crimes should be added to the site now much quicker than before, allowing you to see the most recent crimes.

I have attached some pictures of the site below for both PC and mobile versions.

02/24/2025

5 crimes from this past week have been added to lowellvcm.com

Those crimes include incidents of shots fired on Central St. and Princeton St. a gun arrest on Perry St. after a dirt bike fled from officers, a knife assault on Gorham St. and an assault with a firearm on London St.

02/02/2025

New crimes from this week added to lowellvcm.com, with the majority taking place in Back Central.

These crimes include a shooting on Watson St, that left a victim with a reported gunshot wound to their leg, 2 incidents in the 100 block of Gorham St. (a foot pursuit that yielded two guns and an assault that reportedly involved a firearm, a machete, and a knife), as well as a knife assault on Chase St.

Additionally, there was an assault in the Acre that reportedly left a male victim with wounds from a knife attack on Merrimack St.

01/26/2025

2 incidents of gunfire added to lowellvcm.com

This week's frigid weather resulted in a mostly quiet week crime-wise in the city. However, there were shots fired calls in the city. The first incident occurred on Quebec St. in South Lowell. Numerous casings were reportedly found. There was no further information.

The second incident took place this morning on Melrose St. in Pawtucketville. Officers were originally dispatched to a reported fight on Townsend Ave. While responding, a second caller reported hearing gunshots in the area. During a search, shell casings were located at the corner of Melrose and Malden.

These incidents of gunfire add to the continuing trend of shots fired calls that the city has not seen in recent years. Last year, firearm discharge incidents increased by 50% when compared to 2023 and 67% when compared to the average of 2021-2023. Additonally since August, each month has set or met the highest number of gunfire incidents for that month (lowellvcm.com started in 2021). Finally, for January , when gunshot calls are generally low, there has already been at least 8 incidents (there were only 3 last year and 4 in 2024). The first graph included on this post shows the total number of shots fired/shootings for an entire year, while the second graph shows the number of shots fired/shootings for each January.

As usual when I post stats like this, I'll put my disclaimer here. The data on lowellvcm.com is unofficial although I try my best to verify/confirm the info that I do put on the website through means like Lowell PD's official crime stats. The numbers above may not be 100% accurate, but help to depict the general crime trends in the city.

01/20/2025

In the past week, Lowell PD responded to at least 4 shots fired incidents that left one person injured and also seized 2 fi****ms.

On Jan 13, after 6 AM,. Lowell PD responded to Bowden St. for the report of shots fired. A second caller reported hearing the initial semi auto gunshots and then hearing ~15 full auto gunshots in another area of South Lowell. Shell casings were found later that morning near Meadowcroft St. It is unknown if this is related to the Bowden St. shots or if casings were found on Bowden as well.

On Jan 14, at around 5 PM, while investigating a vehicle crash on Nichols St, an officer located numerous shell casings after at least one suspect fired gunshots shortly after the accident. Later that night, a gunshot victim showed up at a local hospital. It is unknown where that victim was shot.

On Jan 17. a male was arrested by Lowell PD who worked with federal agents to investigate the suspect who was believed to be selling guns and drugs. A firearm and co***ne was located during the arrest on Plain St.

Not shown in the attached picture are another gunfire incident in the Highlands and an arrest on gun charges that took place in Pawtucketville.

Also this week, a male was arrested for an Assault and Battery with a meat cleaver, although I have been unable to confirm where in Lowell this incident took place.

Finally, while creating this post, another shots fired incident occurred in South Lowell. I will have a post about that incident sometime in the next week.

As always, more info can be found at lowellvcm.com

01/16/2025

After two quiet weeks to begin 2025, there were numerous gunfire incidents that occurred in the city in the past few days. These incidents include shots fired near Bowden @ Chippewa / the Meadowcroft st area on 1/13, gunshots on Nichols St yesterday, and a shooting victim who showed up to a city hospital last night (unknown if involved with the other two shots fired incidents).

On another note, I started an internship this week, meaning that I'm probably going to be limited to updating the website (lowellvcm.com)/verifying crimes during weekends only.

A map of the recent violent crimes in the city of Lowell, MA. Includes non-domestic crimes that involve a firearm or knife. Data starts from Oct. 2020

01/02/2025

Yesterday, Lowell PD responded to two incidents of gunfire.

In the first incident, multiple people on South St reported hearing gunfire and a vehicle potentially involved leave the scene just before 8:30 AM. An officer on scene located numerous shell casings on South St.

In the second incident, a person located over a dozen shell casings near the Shedd Park tennis courts. No information on when the shots were fired.

There has been 5 confirmed shots fired incidents in the city in 5 days. More shell casings were potentially found today (unconfirmed) in the Back Central neighborhood.

12/31/2024

Since my last post, I have added 13 crimes to lowellvcm.com

These crimes include five assaults with knives (Middlesex, Adams, Central, Smith, and Merrimack St.) and a stabbing on Gorham St. that left a victim with a stab wound to the head.

Additionally, 7 incidents of gunfire have been added. These shootings led to at least one injury (Oliver St.) and one fatality (900 Block of Middlesex St.). Additional shots fired incidents with no reported incidents took place on Lane St, VFW Highway, Robert St, Warwick St. and the 1900 Block of Middlesex St.

More details on these incidents can be found at lowellvcm.com

12/16/2024

I realized my certificate verifying lowellvcm.com expired on Dec. 9th, causing the site to be unreachable. That issue has been fixed and the site should be back online. However, I have not had the time to add the shooting and shots fired incidents from the post earlier today.

12/15/2024

This morning, a person was reportedly shot on Oliver St. There is no info on the severity of the injuries. It is the second shooting incident in 24 hours in the city as Lowell PD responded to additonal gunshots on the VFW Highway yesterday morning and recovered numerous shell casings across the roadway.

(I am pretty swamped this week, so I don't when these incidents will be added to lowellvcm.com, may not be until next weekend)

12/07/2024

This morning, Lowell PD responded to a report of gunshots on Lane St. Shell casings as well as a crashed car with bullet holes were reportedly found nearby. No victims were found at either scene. I'm waiting to update lowellvcm.com as I am waiting to hear if any information about another possible incident last night is released. However, the site should be updated with the Lane St incident by tonight or tomorrow morning.

A map of the recent violent crimes in the city of Lowell, MA. Includes non-domestic crimes that involve a firearm or knife. Data starts from Oct. 2020