On the evening of October 15, 1996, a decision to take public transportation home from work ended in tragedy for Melvin Franklin, a 39-year-old Black / African American man. Franklin, a skycap at Boston's Logan International Airport, was walking the last few blocks to his home on Woodrow Avenue in Dorchester, a journey he usually made by car. His wife, Mary, was at home with their children when the familiar, yet dreaded, sound of gunshots echoed through the neighborhood. Soon after, the piercing
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