The sole survivor of the 2010 Mattapan killings stunned a Suffolk Superior courtroom Friday when he said he had lied about his inability to identify the man who shot him and killed four others, including a young mother and her 2-year-old son.
On the second anniversary of the killings, Marcus Hurd, a former handyman whose injuries that night left him a quadriplegic, said it was the code of silence on Boston streets, not a poor memory, that prevented him from identifying Dwayne Moore as the shooter.
Comments
The only way to stop these killings is to tell the police who they are. This man has paid a terrible price for keeping quiet on those that do not hesitate to kill others. At least it is a start, but do we need the murder of babies to make others see they must stop the senseless killings in our inner cities.
The code of silence was broken in Charlestown several years ago. It's time to break it in the rest of the city.