BOSTON (WHDH) - Boston clergy are calling on all mayoral candidates to participate in a public debate on community safety after a 73-year-old grandmother was shot and killed in Dorchester on Saturday.
The Violence Reduction Task Force says a debate is the only way to know how candidates will combat violence in the city.
“These clergy and these officers surrounding me recognize there’s a line in the sand and there now must be a public reckoning, and we’re going to advance that reckoning,” said the Rev. Eugene Rivers III. “We’re making every person that is a candidate for mayor to explain and justify their policies.”
Officers responding to a reported shooting in the area of 19 Olney St. around 6 p.m. Saturday found Delores Brown, of Dorchester, suffering from gunshot wounds, according to Boston police.
She was taken by Boston EMS to a nearby hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Brown leaves behind four children, 15 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help defray the cost of her funeral.
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