"left a void that cannot be filled."
"Our youngest child, who I was 7 months pregnant with at the time, will never get to meet him or experience him the way we did," Russell's fiancée said. "She will never hear his voice, feel his protection, or know firsthand the love he had to give. That is a lifelong loss she did nothing to deserve."
"Once again we see the terrible consequences of illegal guns in the hands of people unhesitant to use them, in this case with bullets flying into a crowd gathered for one of our city's proudest celebrations," Hayden said in a statement."
Tony Vance, 41, was sentenced to 15 to 18 years in state prison for manslaughter, plus a concurrent four- to five-year sentence for possession of a loaded firearm without a license and two years of probation. Vance was arrested in October 2023 and initially charged with murder after opening fire on a crowd on Aug. 27, 2022 near 970 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester during the Caribbean Carnival. Derrell Russell, 33, was shot in the torso, taken to Boston Medical Center, and later died. The victim's fiancée described the lifelong loss and an unborn child who will never meet him. The Suffolk County District Attorney condemned the killing and highlighted the consequences of illegal guns used amid a community celebration.
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