Shawne Johnson sat in his cluttered living room yesterday, surrounded by duffel bags stuffed with his two nephews’ clothes.
Farris Glover, 4, and Eric Parson, 17, had planned to leave town Monday night to visit family, but they never made it. Both were wounded when a gunman opened fire as they sat on the back porch of their Roxbury home.
“I left to get them money for their trip,” said Johnson, 37, uncle to the two boys, wiping his eyes after a sleepless night. “I was gone no more than two minutes, and then this happens.”
The pair were among six people injured in three separate shootings Monday. Farris underwent extensive surgery overnight at Boston Medical Center, Johnson said, and remained in stable condition yesterday. Parson, also taken to Boston Medical Center, was expected home yesterday, Johnson said.
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