Continuing A Season of Peace: The Unity March for Mattapan (conclusion)

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By Talia Whyte

Isaura Mendes has become a staple at many anti-violence walks around the city for a very unfortunate reason. The Dorchester activist lost two sons, Bobby and Alex, to street violence. In 2008, she said she forgave Bobby’s convicted killer and told him she prayed that nothing bad would happen to him.

“Let me show you about forgiveness,’’ Mendes said at the Walk for Peace last July. “The murder of Bobby Mendes ended in forgiveness; do you possess the strength to forgive?’’

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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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