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Father of seven identified as man found fatally shot in burning building

By adamg on Mon, 04/06/2015 - 5:20pm
Richard Long

Boston Police today identified the man found shot to death at 332 Harvard St. as Richard Long, 37.

According to his obituary, Long, an ironworker, leaves seven children, along with his parents, three sisters and a brother.

A woman, 34, was also found shot, but she was taken to a local hospital with non-fatal injuries, police say.

Long's funeral is tomorrow at 10 a.m. at St. Marks Episcopal Church, 73 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester.

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Richard Long


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Comments

By cj on Mon, 04/06/2015 - 8:56pm.

His 7 children, mom, dad, sisters and brother will miss him dearly I'm sure. How sad. God bless them and may his spirit embrace you in these troubled times

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 12:48am.

Not to be murdered, but to be so very missed when we do go. All sadness for the family.

By adamg on Mon, 04/06/2015 - 11:04pm.

Spent a good part of the evening thinking about this. The victim was not a public figure and the comment wasn't even about his death, but about how many kids he had, by somebody who's had an account here for maybe 2 days.

It was uncalled for and the sort of obnoxious thing that, yes, reminds me of the stuff formerly posted on the site. And it's not the sort of thing I'm going to let fester here.

By Whit on Mon, 04/06/2015 - 11:31pm.

Good call.

By Ron Newman on Mon, 04/06/2015 - 11:58pm.

 

By Elmer on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 12:34am.

Sometimes the person in charge needs to step up and breathe a bit of common decency into the fray. No one ever does that at The Herald or countless other "news outlets". As a result, their "discussion boards" descend to the lowest common denominator of vile, uninformed, and mean spirited comments.

It can't be a fun job to manually filter through all the anonymous postings, which I imagine are continuously flooded with "my sister earns $$$ working at home" spam messages, in addition to blatantly offensive remarks.

Through it all, Adam succeeds in finding the right balance. I'm sorry that he had to waste time dealing with this issue tonight, but I commend him for making the right call. Thanks to Adam; healthy, intelligent discourse flourishes here, among people with a wide variety of opinions.

Universal Hub is truly a treasure!

By Pete Nice on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 1:08am.

So they have actually taken a pretty big step.

By Brian Riccio on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 4:19am.

with anything that contradicts their editorial slant, then it's bye-bye.

By Pete Nice on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 4:36am.

nt

By adamg on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 6:09am.

If you switch your site's commenting system over to Facebook, you get controls that let you do stuff such as delete individual comments.

By Muerl on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 8:03am.

You can actually hide them, so that no one but the poster can see the,. That way they don't THINK you are deleting them.

By Michael Kerpan on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 7:57am.

Totally appropriate to get rid of that hateful post.

By Scratchie on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 9:04am.

Good call.

By lbb on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 9:42am.

Asshattery need not be tolerated.

By Neil on Tue, 04/07/2015 - 12:02am.

And may your loved ones and friends know your memory as a blessing.