Two from eatery killing laid to rest
By Marie Szaniszlo | Sunday, November 28, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
GRIEF: Distraught family and friends leave Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale after a funeral Mass for Winzisky Soto.
Photo by Jim Michaud
The wife and two young daughters of one of three men killed last Sunday in a shootout and knife fight at a Jamaica Plain pizzeria bid a tearful farewell to him yesterday.
“Thank you for being a great dad to my girls,” Carolina Quinchia Soto said, standing before dozens of mourners at Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale with her daughters, Jazebel and Isabella. “You left me the most precious gift. You left me my girls. For that, I love you.”
“I love you,” the girls said, repeating after her.
Then their mother kissed 27-year-old Winzisky Soto’s coffin goodbye.
Soto and Johnnel “Bo” Cruz, 20, both of Jamaica Plain, and Ariel Dume, 20, of Roxbury were killed about 7:30 p.m. Nov. 21 during an alleged confrontation between rival gang members at the Same Old Place, a popular Centre Street pizza shop.
Cruz allegedly stabbed Dume, who then shot him and Soto.
One bullet cracked a mirrored wall inside the pizzeria, another pierced a wall separating the dining area from the kitchen, and a third shattered the restaurant’s window.
That bullet grazed a woman who happened to be walking nearby with two other women.
The killings prompted Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley and other civic leaders to call for peace.
Yesterday, funeral Masses were celebrated for Soto and Cruz.
“We pray that Winzisky is in heaven, that the Lord will use him as an agent for peace and that people will work for peace in his memory,” the Rev. Charles Bourque said at Sacred Heart Church.
Hardened gangbangers wept and took off their baseball caps as they ushered Soto’s body into the church.
Afterward, a hearse with American and Dominican flags took his body to Mount Hope Cemetery.
Dume’s funeral will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale.
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