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"Garden
for victims will be a haven for families" July 17, 2004 The murder victims' families stood in a small city garden and told their sorrowful stories. One woman said her daughter was killed with a brick. Another remembered a brother who was savagely beaten to death. They gathered in the garden - a quiet, windswept space on Somerset Street - to watch the installation of a sculpture they hope will help people see the possibility for peace at a time of rising violence. "Murders happen one by one, but we don't step back to realize the toll it takes on our communities," said Betty Borghesani, whose daughter was murdered in 1990. "It can hit anybody at any time." The sculpture installed yesterday is among the final touches in a decade-long effort to build a memorial garden in Boston to remember the state's murder victims. The sculpture, a 17-foot bronze structure carved in the likeness of a heron-like bird called an ibis, was erected at the edge of the garden just hours after police confirmed the death of Boston's 36th murder victim this year - a Dorchester man who was gunned down while driving along Corbet Street. "In a sense, this is a demand for something to be done," said landscape designer Catherine Melina, who created the concept. The garden memorial, to be dedicated in September, will include the names of 320 Massachussets homicide victims whose families asked to be part of the memorial.
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