Kacey DeLeon told the Star-Telegram she tried convincing her father, Scotty Jackson, to come home early as he usually never made deliveries in the evening.
Joshua Teixeira was only 2 when Nardo Lopes fatally stabbed Bobby Mendes in 1995, setting off years of murderous violence in Dorchester's Cape Verdean community. That violence and the lure of profits from trafficking drugs, guns and women eventually swept Teixeira up.