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Police, families hunt for motive

Relative says envy of hip-hop group may have led to killings

Curtis Phillips, stepfather of Edwin Duncan, said he and his wife have turned to their son’s friends and other family members for answers.
By Donovan Slack and Matthew Burke
Globe Staff and Globe Correspondent / December 16, 2005

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Mayor Thomas M. Menino and police said yesterday that police had not found a motive for Boston's worst mass slaying in a decade, though relatives of one victim suggested that jealousy about the success of his hip-hop group might have triggered the bloodbath in the amateur recording studio. (Full article: 746 words)

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