A man was recently shot and killed in Dorchester after an hours-long stand-off with Boston police. The unidentified shooter reportedly suffered from mental illness and, for a host of reasons, he wasn’t receiving the care he needed. His ability to access a firearm made for a horrible combination in which he fired on police officers who ended the siege by ending his life. Now, a grieving and broken family is left behind, several police officers are suffering physical pain of their injuries and psychological pain of ending a life, and like many stories before his, this one is only partially told.

Read the full article in the Dorchester Reporter.