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U.S. NEWS Monday 16 april 2018

Boston marks 5 years since marathon attack with tributes

By VAISHNAVEE SHARMA gagement.
and SARAH BETANCOURT Victim Lu Lingzi's uncle,
Associated Press Sherman Yee, was pres-
BOSTON (AP) — The bells of ent at the ceremony and
Old South Church in Boston private gathering. He said,
rang at 2:49 p.m. to com- "The family has been over-
memorate a citywide mo- whelmed by love and
ment of silence in honor of support from all over the
Boston Marathon bombing world.'" He called Lingzi
survivors and victims an "extraordinary girl" who
It was an emotional mo- represented the youth that
ment in a day filled with come to the U.S. from Chi-
service projects and cere- na to study.
monies to remember those "While she didn't realize her
impacted by the deadly dreams, as her family we
bombings five years ago. invest in the youths through
Boston began the anniver- our foundation to keep her
sary of the attacks Sunday memory going," he said.
with Mayor Marty Walsh The bombs also killed
and Gov. Charlie Baker 29-year-old Krystle Camp-
laying wreaths early in bell, of Arlington. Massa-
the morning at the spots chusetts Institute of Tech-
along downtown Boylston nology police officer Sean The father of Lingzi Lu, Jun Lu, second from right, and her aunt Helen Zhao, right, observe a mo-
Street where two bombs Collier was killed in the line ment of silence with the family of Martin Richard, foreground from left, Bill, Jane, Henry and Denise,
killed three spectators and of duty during a confronta- center, during a ceremony at the site where Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu were killed in the second
maimed more than 260 tion with bomber Tamerlan explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon, Sunday, April 15, 2018, in Boston.
others April 15, 2013. Tzarneav. Associated Press
Both addressed families Roxanne Simmonds was at
and survivors at a private commemorative ceremo- "Individuals of color work- the seeds of change. For- co-payments.
ceremony inside the Boston nies to honor her son, fallen ing hard to make sure their ty-three-year-old Heather "I want to make some
Public Library. Boston police officer Dennis communities were safe." Abbott of Newport, Rhode changes in the world of
"On April 15, 2013, our city Simmonds. Simmonds suf- She praised Walsh, saying Island hosted a fundraiser health insurance and help
changed forever but over fered a head injury on April that it was obvious how sig- for her foundation that them understand why peo-
the last five years, we have 19, 2013, during a shoot- nificant the victims are to supports amputees. Ab- ple need these devices,"
reclaimed hope. We have out with Dzhokhar and Ta- the mayor. bott was outside of Forum, said Abbott.
reclaimed the finish line merlan Tsarnaev as law Arreen Andrew, of Boston, a restaurant by the finish Abbott says the foundation
and Boston has emerged enforcement closed in on said she was in the crowd line, when the impact of has given out 19 prosthetic
with a new strength, a resil- them. across the stand when the the second bomb blew her devices out so far. "They
ience rooted in love," Walsh He suffered a fatal brain first bomb went off in 2013. through the entrance of can cost from $15,000 to
said. aneurysm a year later as- "It was sheer panic," she the building. Former New as much as $100,000," she
Jane and Henry Richard, sessed to be the result of recalled. "Just this sense of England Patriots lineman said.q
siblings of the youngest his injuries from the explo- 'No, this can't happen to Matt Chatham and his wife
victim Martin Richard, and sive device. Roxanne Sim- us.'" Erin were in the restaurant,
members of the family's monds said "DJ" was "bril- Five years later, while the and carried Abbott to safe-
foundation, also spoke. liant and fearless — he just day is still a reminder of ty.
Henry Richard urged those loved Boston." some painful memories, After three surgeries in four
listening to follow Martin's The youngest graduate of she said it has also become days, Abbott's left leg was
message to "choose kind- his class at Lasell College, a day about the relation- amputated below the
ness and do more." The Dennis Simmonds worked ships that have since been knee. Her recovery was
family's foundation was in Mattapan as an officer. formed and "reformed and long, but in 2014, Abbott
founded in 2014 to con- "It was important for him recreated our entire com- started her own founda-
nect young people with to be in a community with munity." tion to help amputees with
opportunities for volunteer- men and women who look For some, such an anni- financial difficulties afford
ism and community en- like him," his mother said. versary is about planting prosthetics and expensive