Myra Latimer-Nicholas is a member of what she calls a crappy club, one of the mothers who have lost a child to gun violence whose cases have gone years unsolved.
That changed early Tuesday, at least in part, when Latimer-Nicholas learned that a Boston man had been indicted in the 2011 shooting death of her oldest son, Steven Latimer.
Assistant Attorney General Jim Baum delivered the news to her Tuesday morning along with Providence Police Detective Angelo A’Vant and Ana Giron, director of victims’ services at the attorney general’s office.
“It was just really overwhelming,” Latimer-Nicholas said. “I honestly had not expected them to be where they were.”
After receiving her first dose of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine Friday at a Los Angeles park, healthcare worker Ana Giron said the vaccine rollout finally relieved some of the stress and anxiety she’s carried since the start of the pandemic.
Giron, who works at a dental clinic in Pasadena, waited 20 minutes for the first of two required doses, but she’s waited months to take this step toward immunization for a virus that has killed nearly 360,000 Americans to date.
“I’m at least a little bit hopeful that this will help us,” Giron said in an interview with Courthouse News. “I have underlying health conditions, too, including diabetes, so I’m feeling good about it. This has been a very stressful time.”