Front-page piece in today’s Boston Globe:
3 lives of joy, hope cut short in an instant
The four young women styled one anothers’ hair and painted one anothers’ nails. They remained inseparable even after high school, as they set out on promising career paths. And in a sudden burst of gunfire Sunday night in Dorchester, three were gone.
On Tuesday, the parents of the victims of the Harlem Street shootings recounted the shock and heartbreak they felt when they learned of their daughters’ deaths. But they also shared the memories of three bright lives snuffed out by an unexplained act of violence.
Globe Metro editor Jennifer Peter on Twitter:
In the Boston Herald, though, it’s a whole different story.
Kin: ‘Beautiful’ shooting victim wasn’t gangbanger
The grief-stricken relatives of one of the women killed in Sunday night’s Harlem Street triple homicide said the “beautiful” mother of a 5-year-old daughter had no gang ties even as police continue to probe a possible gang link into the bloody shootings — and victims’ families desperately grasp for answers.
“For me, I don’t care what you were into. No one deserves to get attacked,” Mary Monteiro, 50, whose goddaughter, 22-year-old Genevieve Marie Phillip, was identified as one of the four woman shot — three fatally — as they sat inside a car in Dorchester.
The piece later reports, “Officials have said the attack was not random, and a gang hook is possible.”
To the hardreading staff, this story neatly encapsulates the parallel worlds of Boston’s dailies – and daily life.
The lovely and the ugly, side by side.
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Not much is uglier than murder, John.