4 October 2010

Continuing A Season of Peace: The Unity Walk for Mattapan

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By Talia Whyte

Dozens of concerns residents from all over the city and surrounding suburbs gathered on Oct 2 at the corner of Blue Hill Avenue and Morton Street in Mattapan to participate in a unity walk, which was called together by the Rev. Jeffrey Brown of the Boston Ten Point Coalition in light of the murders of four individuals just a around the corner on Woolson Street a few days earlier. A man linked to the crime was arrested Oct. 1 at a Manchester, N.H., apartment complex on a fugitive-from-justice warrant and is scheduled to appear in Manchester District Court for a rendition hearing.

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