A Hartford minister takes a U.S. senator on a grim tour
Murphy meets privately with mother of slain toddler
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Sen. Chris Murphy, center, talks to the Rev. Henry Brown on a tour of the scenes of recent shooting deaths in Hartford, including 3-year-old Randell Jones.
HARTFORD — The leading proponent of gun control in the U.S. Senate only could bring condolences to the mother of the three-year-old boy shot to death two weeks ago.
Sen. Chris Murphy met with Solmary Cruz, the mother of the slain toddler, Randell Jones, in a private meeting arranged by the Rev. Henry Brown, an activist who once heckled Murphy as insufficiently engaged on urban violence. Brown is a co-founder of Mothers United Against Violence.