“Within our community, we are losing at both ends of the guns,” said Tina Chéry when she joined Jim Braude on Greater Boston, alongside the man who pleaded guilty in her son’s murder, for their first television interview together. “There are no winners here. We are both impacted, our families are impacted, and our communities are impacted.”

On Christmas Eve, 1993, Tina Chéry’s 15-year-old son, Louis, was walking to an anti-gang violence meeting when he was caught in the crossfire of a shootout and killed. Four years later, Charles Bogues pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Louis’ killing and ultimately served 16 years in prison.

 

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