Kari Strouth
Special to the Journal & Sun
After 31 years as a member of the Randolph Police Department, patrolman Steve Elman has left the job he never intended to have.
Elman, whose last day with the department was July 6, has been a licensed plumber longer than he was a police officer.
More than three decades ago, Elman worked with his father in a family-owned plumbing business, and was content. He and his cousin intended to take over the business one day, and his life was planned out.
Then, it seems, fate invented.
“My uncle called me one day and said you’re taking the police exam” Elman said. “So, I took the police exam. I got a 98.”
Death threats, verbal harassment and social media vitriol. The family of Hopkinton’s Mikayla Miller says they’re paying a significant emotional price as they continue to publicly pursue an independent and transparent probe of the teen’s April 18 death.
For Easton’s Henry family, Framingham’s Stephanie Deeley, and several other families across New England, the cost of public pressure is all too familiar. The Miller case has not only brought them back to their early days of being in the spotlight, but has reminded them of how they’re still paying a similar price months or years into their own quest for justice.