91-year-old civil rights activist stabbed while walking dog in Boston
foxnews.comA 91-year-old civil rights activist and education advocate was stabbed multiple times while walking her dog in a Boston park, authorities said.
Jean McGuire, the first Black woman to serve on the Boston School Committee, was stabbed in Franklin Park at about 8:30 p.m.Tuesday, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said Wednesday after visiting McGuire at the hospital.
McGuire's stabbing, as well as the recent fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy in the city, is unacceptable, said Hayden, whose family has been close to McGuire's for years. "I’m certainly outraged, and I think we have to be at the point where we have an entire community that is equally as outraged and will not stand for this sort of random violence any further," he said.
The good news is that McGuire is "as spunky and as vibrant as ever and is going to be just fine, praise the Lord," he said. McGuire's sister, Jeriline Brady McGinnis, told multiple news outlets that her sister has been walking dogs in the park for decades. "What did he want?
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