Thursday, 4:30 PM
Boston police name latest homicide victim
By Suzanne Smalley, Globe Staff
Boston Police today identified a 21-year-old from Roxbury as the man found shot to death in Dorchester on Saturday afternoon.
Ruth Rollins said that she reported her son, Warren Daniel Hairston, missing last week after he failed to come home. Police have made no arrests in his killing.
Rollins said her son was friends with several youths from the H-Block gang in Roxbury, including Jahmol Norfleet, 20, who helped lead a ceasefire between H-Block and a rival gang, Heath Street, in the months before he was gunned down in November. Police last month arrested an Everett teen, saying two guns found in a car he was driving were linked to Norfleet's shooting, but have not made an arrest in the homicide.
Hairston, who was the father of a 2-year-old girl, was released from jail the day Norfleet was killed, Rollins said. She said she has heard rumors suggesting her son was a suspect in Norfleet's killing, but she does not believe them.
Like Norfleet, Rollins said, her son was tired of burying friends. "He wanted this to end," Rollins said.
