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
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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