Boston Unites to Urge an End to Murders
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Religious leaders joined Boston officials and citizens in calling for peace this weekend after a rise in violence. City and transit police have recorded 41 homicides so far this year, as many as the city saw in all of 2003.
The homicides include 26 deaths of people under age 24, including the murder of a coach at a youth basketball game in July.
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