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Dorchester killing is Boston's first homicide of 2008

Victim just called mother to wish a happy birthday

By Michael Naughton
Globe Correspondent / January 7, 2008

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While he was out with his cousins about 12:30 a.m. yesterday, Joseph Clarke called his mother to make sure he was the first to wish her a happy birthday. An hour later, he was fatally shot. (Full article: 433 words)

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