This is one of the most insane things I have ever read in a Boston newspaper.
“On the fourth anniversary of her brother’s slaying, a woman lighting candles at a makeshift shrine to him was gunned down, killed at about the same spot, on the same day and at nearly the same hour as her older sibling.”
When I read this headline on CNN, I assumed it had unfolded in Iraq or Israel. Nope – try Roxbury. If you read the full article, you’ll see that the poor woman wasn’t even planning to go to the shrine, but went back when she noticed the candles had blown out. Was someone following her, waiting for her or was this a stray bullet and subsequently the most bizarre coincidence in the history of mankind?
Dave,
This goes beyond sad. Is the mayor going to do something about the explosion in violent crime down there? Target gift certificates are not going to solve the gun violence problems in the city.
F the mayor… “Marbles” is a disgrace