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BROCKTON — A 74-year-old clergyman was beaten to death with a hammer as he rode his bike to tend to his disabled daughter Tuesday evening, authorities and family members said.
Lee Harmon, who had lived in the city since the age of 14, taught at the local Head Start and was a Pentecostal clergyman. A father of seven and a grandfather of about 10, he often rode his bike through town, and was pedaling his way to care for his daughter, who has cerebral palsy, when he was attacked at 8:45 p.m. on Clinton Street near James Street, relatives and witnesses said.
Witnesses told investigators they heard a crash and commotion, followed by breaking glass and a verbal confrontation.
The victim’s wife, Francise Harmon, and other family members and friends, gathered at the scene of the crime this morning and held hands and prayed, standing on the blood-soaked asphalt and near several crumpled religious pamphlets that Harmon carried with him.
“Who could do such a thing to a man who never hurt anyone in his life?” his widow asked, her hands raised in the air.
State Police spent the early morning gathering evidence, including surveillance video from a nearby home and business, the Bristol district attorney’s office said.
A young man who lives on Clinton Street said he was the first person to go to Harmon’s aid, and immediately realized that he was gravely injured. Harmon sustained a gaping wound to the back of his head and his wrist had a severe wound that left a bone exposed.
Harmon was holding one hand over his blood-soaked head and was moaning, said the witness, who declined to give his name.
According to broadcast reports, a hammer was recovered at the scene.
The attack occurred just several homes away from 103 Clinton St., where in January 2009, Keith Luke, a self-described neo-Nazi skinhead, fatally shot 20-year-old Selma Goncalves and raped another woman.
As Luke fled, he also fatally shot 72-year-old Arlindo DePina Goncalves, a homeless man who often collected cans around the neighborhood.
Brockton is a warzone.
View media item 548265
BROCKTON — A 74-year-old clergyman was beaten to death with a hammer as he rode his bike to tend to his disabled daughter Tuesday evening, authorities and family members said.
Lee Harmon, who had lived in the city since the age of 14, taught at the local Head Start and was a Pentecostal clergyman. A father of seven and a grandfather of about 10, he often rode his bike through town, and was pedaling his way to care for his daughter, who has cerebral palsy, when he was attacked at 8:45 p.m. on Clinton Street near James Street, relatives and witnesses said.
Witnesses told investigators they heard a crash and commotion, followed by breaking glass and a verbal confrontation.
The victim’s wife, Francise Harmon, and other family members and friends, gathered at the scene of the crime this morning and held hands and prayed, standing on the blood-soaked asphalt and near several crumpled religious pamphlets that Harmon carried with him.
“Who could do such a thing to a man who never hurt anyone in his life?” his widow asked, her hands raised in the air.
State Police spent the early morning gathering evidence, including surveillance video from a nearby home and business, the Bristol district attorney’s office said.
A young man who lives on Clinton Street said he was the first person to go to Harmon’s aid, and immediately realized that he was gravely injured. Harmon sustained a gaping wound to the back of his head and his wrist had a severe wound that left a bone exposed.
Harmon was holding one hand over his blood-soaked head and was moaning, said the witness, who declined to give his name.
According to broadcast reports, a hammer was recovered at the scene.
The attack occurred just several homes away from 103 Clinton St., where in January 2009, Keith Luke, a self-described neo-Nazi skinhead, fatally shot 20-year-old Selma Goncalves and raped another woman.
As Luke fled, he also fatally shot 72-year-old Arlindo DePina Goncalves, a homeless man who often collected cans around the neighborhood.
Brockton is a warzone.
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