Saturday, March 24, 2018

From Parkland to Chicago, Hope Rises for Overdue Gun Violence Reforms

Terrell Bosley

The Parkland kids ‘are impatient,’ said a pastor who’s seen far too many people shot down in Chicago. ‘I love that about them.’

By Michael Daly

Anyone who knew to listen might have heard a murdered musician playing his distinctively pulsing bass from on high as the five buses embarked from Saint Sabina Church in Chicago for the March For Our Lives in Washington at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

On board the second bus with a draft of a speech he was to give at Saturday’s gathering was 19-year-old Trevon “Tre” Bosley, who had been just 8 when his remarkably talented older brother was gunned down in a case of mistaken identity in 2006.

Terrell Bosley had been a rising star in the Chicago gospel scene nicknamed “Mr. Music” as he often played at three or more churches on a weekend. He summoned uncommon feeling from his bass guitar, his right hand working the frets and his left the strings, the opposite of the usual for a righty. He would arrive two hours early to rehearse for a service and was taking a break in the parking lot at the Lights of Zion church when shots rang out. His girlfriend ran up to him asking if anybody had been shot and saw blood on his shoulder. The pastor knelt at his side, kissing him and telling him he would be all right.

Word reached the family home, and Tre remembers rushing to the car with his middle brother and their parents. They arrived at the Lights of Zion just as Terrell was being loaded into the back of an ambulance.

The family followed the ambulance to Advocate Christ Medical Center. Tre and the middle brother, Terrez, sat in a waiting area as their mother, Pamela, and father, Tom, went in to speak with the doctors.

“We heard crying,” Tre would recall.

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Source: The Daily Beast 

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