On the morning of June 28, 1978, the city of Boston awoke to a scene of brutal violence that would come to be known as the "Blackfriars Massacre." Inside the blood-spattered basement of the Blackfriars Pub on Summer Street, a janitor made a gruesome discovery: the bodies of five men, one of whom was 34-year-old Freddy Francisco Delavega of Somerville. The victims had been shot and, in some cases, brutally mutilated in what was described as a gangland-style slaying. Delavega, along with the pub's
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