From strangers in the street to neighbors who knew the victim, the city of Boston has been left stunned by the death of Yuzhen Lei, reports the Boston Herald.
“She had a lot of friends,” said a neighbor who lived in the same Chinatown apartment building as Lei. “Everyone in the building is talking about it — they all know what happened to her.”
Sadly, no memorial has been erected at the site of where the 72-year old grandmother was shoved and her head hit the pavement, leading to her death. There are no flowers, nothing. People continue to walk over that spot as if nothing happened.
Lei bumped into another woman when that woman reacted by pushing her hard into the ground and then continued to walk away.
Even strangers in the city of Boston are talking about Lei’s death.
“This is not a Boston issue,” Vincent Kinan said. “It’s sad and so senseless, but I’ll tell you we’ve seen it at Disneyland. The general level of rudeness and
inconsideration that some people show toward other people has, sadly, become a fact of life.”
Lei is survived by two sons, a daughter and five grandchildren. Her husband died last year.
The suspect, Tajanetta Downing, 24, is being held on $75,000 bail and has entered a not guilty plea to charges of aggravated assault and battery, and assault and battery on a person 60 or older. Additional charges are expected to be filed now that Lei has died.
You can read comments from both her neighbors and strangers in the Boston Herald.
