Irishmen?
Italians? (Wait, are the really "white"?)
Interesting worlds some of us lived in in, eh?
All of Irish descent. All in all, they got a slap on the wrist. It didn't hurt that Ralph's (Langdon) dad was a cop. Killed a guy and was out in less than 4 years. Things were a little different back then...
BTW. I was wrong in my OP on the subject. It was manslaughter, not murder 2. I was told the real story some years later. There was absolute premeditation and that Iranian kid was offed intentionally. The 'time' they did at the kiddie camp was a joke. They ran the joint and said they had fun until turned loose. Not a lot of justice for the victim or his family on that one, IMO.
Harry, yes on your call RE: lower Allston back in the day. Early 90s you were there? Ever go to Bunratty's? Molly's? Gerlando's? Harper's Ferry? Kinvara? O'Brien's? Our House? Sunset Tap? The Silhouette? Great Scott? If yes, chances are excellent you and I have been drinking in the same bars at the same times...
October 21, 1980
Section: RUN OF PAPER
TWO FOUND GUILTY OF ASSAULT IN DEATH OF IRANIAN STUDENT
James Hammond Globe Staff
Two Brookline teenagers were found innocent of manslaughter but guilty of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon today in the fatal attack on an Iranian student in Cleveland Circle on May 18, 1979.
A Norfolk Superior Court jury deliberated six hours before returning the verdict in the cases of Peter Mattimoe Jr., 17, and Mark Eliasson, 16.
They were charged with taking part in the assault on Ali Majidi, a 20- year-old engineering student at Boston University, who was stabbed to death while walking home from a movie.
A third Brookline youth, Ralph Langdon Jr., 17, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Majidi's death, was sentenced yesterday to detention in a secure Department of Youth Services (DYS) facility until he turns 21.
Today Judge William G. Young directed that Eliasson and Mattimoe be placed in custody of the DYS for evaluation and return to court for sentencing Oct. 30.
He made no recommendation that they be kept in a secure facility, saying that if the DYS thinks the evaluation can be done on an outpatient basis, he had no objection.
In sentencing Langdon, Young also ordered that he serve 20 years in the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Concord on the manslaughter charge when he is released by DYS.
But the judge said he would consider a motion by Langdon's counsel to revoke that sentence and place Langdon on probation if he stays in the DYS facility until 21 and causes no problems. LINSCO;10/21,12:05 MFEENE;10/22,15 B07980512
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News Subject: (Violent Crime (1VI27); Crime (1CR87); Social Issues (1SO05))
Region: (Massachusetts (1MA15); USA (1US73); Americas (1AM92); New England (1NE37); North America (1NO39))
Language: EN
Other Indexing: (BOSTON UNIVERSITY; BROOKLINE; DYS; MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION; NORFOLK SUPERIOR COURT; YOUTH SERVICES) (Eliasson; Mark Eliasson; Mattimoe; Peter Mattimoe Jr.; Ralph Langdon Jr.; William G. Young; Young)
Edition: SEVENTH
Word Count: 299