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Impromptu memorials at Cheney Street and Elm Hill Avenue (left), Crawford and Harold streets (center), and Maple and Sonoma streets mark the sites of deadly violence in Roxbury.

City may regulate memorials

Officials see a danger in sites dedicated to homicide victims

By Matt Viser
Globe Staff / July 26, 2006

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Hours after 28-year-old James Green was stabbed to death near Codman Square last month, balloons, flowers, and candles appeared at the site where he had fallen. Family and friends frequently gathered there, along with residents who knew him only as an affable figure in the neighborhood. (Full article: 902 words)

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