"Dorchester man struck down as he turned life around" by Bob Hohler and Evan Allen, Globe Staff January 10, 2015
On Thursday, the day he became Boston’s first homicide victim of 2015, Alex DoSouto, a former gang member whose family already had been devastated by gun violence, was the first player on the court for basketball practice at Roxbury Community College.
He was at last living his dream. After surviving a shooting in 2009 and serving two years in prison for armed robbery, DoSouto had won a starting role on the community college basketball team while earning high grades in his first semester of college.
He was gaining redemption in a community — the Bowdoin-Geneva section of Dorchester — where second chances rarely come easy....
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