Gang leader's slaying endangers truce
H-Block figure gunned down in Roxbury; police try to prevent retaliation
A 20-year-old gang leader from Roxbury was shot to death last night near his home on Holworthy Street, the first breach of a landmark four-month truce between two of the city's most violent gangs that have been linked to a rash of shootings in recent years, police and local ministers said. (Full article: 757 words)
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