It's the one-year anniversary:
"Boston police still seek clues in triple homicide, 1 year later" by Brian Ballou | Globe Staff, August 10, 2013
Boston police have identified several “persons of interest” and released surveillance photographs they hope will spur leads in a deadly shooting that shocked the city a year ago Monday, taking the lives of three 22-year-old women who had just attended a festival and cookout together....
Sergeant Detective Richard Daley, who is leading the investigation, said his team has developed a “good foundation of evidence” in the case, which has been complicated by unwillingness of some who may have evidence to talk to police, but he declined to say whether authorities are close to making arrests.
Four women toasted their friendship at the Dominican Festival at the Shattuck Picnic Grove in Franklin Park last Aug. 12 before they got into a car and drove to Harlem Street in Dorchester.
At 9:22 p.m., as the women sat in the car, rapid gunfire rang out....
On Friday, police released a grainy surveillance photograph of a white sport utility vehicle, believed to be a newer model Saturn Vue or Chevrolet Captiva, that was traveling along Harlem Street at the time of the shootings. The vehicle is not the same as the one captured in a surveillance video that was widely published in the days following the killings.
Police also released two slightly blurry surveillance pictures of the crowd at the cookout, which numbered at least 100. Authorities are asking anyone who attended and who may have any pertinent information to contact police.
Daley said police have looked over text messages either sent or received by one or more of the victims at the cookout, but he declined to state the nature of those messages. He also declined to say whether the assailants were also at the gathering.
“We believe this case can be solved, and we believe there are people out there who have specific information that can help us solve it,’’ said Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley. “Those individuals need to step up and share their knowledge with police and prosecutors. Friends and family members who may have a hunch about someone’s involvement need to impress upon them the importance of coming forward.”
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On Harlem Street, where the barrage of gunfire transformed a calm Sunday evening into one of the most violent nights in the city’s history, many residents wondered if justice will ever be served.
“Well, right after it happened, we were all thinking that someone would be caught soon, at least after a couple of months, but here we are a year later, and still not a word,” said Betty Jenkins, 78, who has lived on the street for 30 years....
Edith Watson, a grandmother in her 60s who has lived virtually her whole life on Harlem Street, said from her second-floor balcony as she tended to her grandchild, “My only question is: What are the police doing? It makes you wonder if they’re doing anything at all, that maybe they stopped looking.”
Without crime there is no need for cops.
Watson noted how swiftly investigators closed in on a suspect in the July 23 murder of Amy Lord, 24, who worked at a digital marketing and Web design firm in the South End. Watson questioned whether police have been as vigorous in their investigation of the triple homicide.
Related: Good Lord
Anyone point out Lord was white and these three women black?
The day after the Lord homicide, police arrested Edwin J. Alemany, 28, a former busboy and maintenance man, in assaults on two other women, and he faces arraignment on murder charges in the Lord case.
Daley said comparisons should not be drawn between the cases. “Just because the case hasn’t gotten a lot of publicity doesn’t mean it has been sitting on a shelf collecting dust,” he said. “Every investigation is different. . . . Some have multiple witnesses; some zero. You’ve got to be patient sometimes and wait for the doors to open.”
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