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Investigators worked on Bentham and Mount Ida Roads last evening after the slaying of a homeowner near Ronan Park.
Investigators worked on Bentham and Mount Ida Roads last evening after the slaying of a homeowner near Ronan Park. (Globe Staff Photo / John Bohn) Globe Staff Photo / John Bohn

Dorchester activist is fatally stabbed

By David Abel and Justin D. Rebello
Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent / May 11, 2005

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John Beresford got an urgent call yesterday from a friend who said muggers had snatched a companion's purse. He ran out of his Dorchester house to nearby Ronan Park to help and confronted two young men believed to be the muggers. But his courageous act put the 40-year-old neighborhood activist face to face with an attacker who plunged a knife ... (Full article: 461 words)

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