The Boston Globe, July 29th, 1990
A bullet had come through the second-floor window, causing the fractured glass to resemble a spider's web, and lodged in plaster inches above the table where a slice of cake left from the young boy's party remained uneaten on a paper plate. The gunshot arrived unannounced, unlike the celebration that took place the other night on Magnolia Street in Dorchester for a kid who turned 6; and if the party had been for people a bit older and thus taller, the city might be in grief this morning over one more child, dead for no good reason. "It missed my boy by maybe a foot," the father said. "Went ri...
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