Word: procopio
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...Procopio said that the case brought light to the contrast between Harvard and the people that hung around the “Pit,” the area outside the Harvard Square subway station...
...grateful that the jury saw the evidence and held these stone-cold killers accountable for what they did,” said Suffolk District Attorney Spokesman David Procopio. “We are satisfied that three and a half years of work to bring them to justice was fruitful, but we’re also aware that a life of an innocent young woman was lost...
...Procopio said that Parker and the Vasquez brothers were the leaders of a gang that had tried to recruit Nachtwey and some of her friends. But, Procopio said, when Nachtwey’s boyfriend, another “Pit kid” named Gene Bamford, and some other recruits refused to carry out orders from the gang leaders, the defendants struck back by raping and killing Nachtwey...
...truly an innocent,” Procopio said. “She was a victim who really posed no threat to these men or to anybody. It was just [the defendants’] violent egos. They were going to prove to her friends that they don’t cross them, and they were going to prove that by killing...
...would not have been able to prove this case without them,” Procopio said. “In large part they were society’s misfits, and yet, although it wasn’t easy for them, when the time came they did the right thing and testified for their friend...