Man Fatally Shot in Lynn

MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020 Driver ODs, crashes Jeep into seven cars By Gayla Cawley Absolutely insane.” ITEM STAFF Messina said he lives around the corner and happened to be walk- LYNN — It was like a scene out ing on Commercial Street when he of “Demolition Derby” on Neptune saw lights and two cars “blitzed.” Boulevard Sunday afternoon when He then started heading home. A 37-year-old a 37-year-old Nahant man crashed “That’s when I saw this demoli- Nahant man his white Jeep into numerous tion derby here,” said Messina. crashed his parked cars. The destruction started at about white Jeep The wreckage, which police said 2:30 p.m. when the Nahant man into seven occurred after the man overdosed, crashed his Jeep into numerous parked cars resulted in two injuries and seven parked cars along Neptune Bou- in Lynn parked cars being towed from the levard. He allegedly continued to Sunday scene with extensive damage. crash into cars on the intersecting afternoon. “This is insane,” said Joe Messi- South Elm Street, where police na, 68. “Somebody had to be abso- found him unconscious inside his ITEM PHOTO | lutely ying because this isn’t just GAYLA CAWLEY ‘oh, I’m sorry, I bumped your car.’ CRASH, A3 CELEBRATING Man fatally shot in Lynn By Gayla Cawley A MATRIARCH and Elyse Carmosino ITEM STAFF FOR THE AGES LYNN — A 25-year-old man has died after he was shot in the area of How- ard Street early Saturday morning. Police responded to a call for shots red shortly after 5 a.m. and found Bryan Omar Mendez suffering from a gunshot wound on Lander Street, according to the Essex County Dis- trict Attorney’s of ce. Mendez, whose last known address was in Worcester, was taken to Salem Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, the DA’s of ce said. A neighbor told The Item the violence followed a par- ty on the corner of Howard and Lander Streets. The 38-year-old man, who asked to remain anon- ymous, said he woke up to three gunshots, which was followed by screaming and a lot of commotion. He ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK looked outside to see two men running down the Members of the Lynn Police Department wrap up an investigation of street. an early-morning shooting at the intersection of Lander Avenue and Lander Street where the victim of the shooting was found Saturday SHOOTING, A3 morning. STEVE KRAUSE LOOK! By Elyse Carmosino Dorrisile Dervis COMMENTARY Lynn native’s ITEM STAFF receives a hug “Extraordinary” TV show from her god- debuts Tuesday. A8 LYNN — Dressed in white, daughter and Angelet Dorvilas-Gredeon stood granddaughter, Patriots defeat Sports by the doorway of the decked- Cheryl Dorvilas, English boys basketball out event room in Hibernian on her 118th rolls to win over Hall last Saturday evening as TechBoston. B1 she waited for her extended birthday at the leaves him at a loss family to arrive in droves. Hibernian Hall The occasion? To celebrate in Lynn. There have been lots of bene ts glorious run of Patriot dominance: Fenwick boys basketball their grandmother’s 118th associated with the Patriots’ unprec- each year the Patriots went deep in falls in overtime. B1 birthday. ITEM PHOTO | edented run of superiority in the the playoffs was another year we OLIVIA FALCIGNO “She’s special,” Dorvilas-Gre- National Football League. could tolerate January. Drew Olivieri, below, deon said of the family’s matri- Some are obvious. We have crowned Face it. January is one brutal records 100th career arch. “She’s my doll.” ourselves the “city of champions,” month. It’s cold, dark, stormy (and I point in Swampscott In the center of the room and with six Super Bowl wins, four World don’t mean dark and stormy, which is boys hockey win. B1 donned in an entirely gold en- Series championships and an NBA something you may want to drink to semble, Dorrisile Dervis sat in and NHL title each since the dawn get through January) and dull. her wheelchair as Dorvilas-Gre- of the 21st century. While it’s made Not only is the weather wretched, deon’s children — Olivia (9), us feel good in this little corner of but nothing of any real signi cance and Carter (6) — played games the country, it’s made the rest of the happens in January. beside their great-grandmother. United States sick. We are now the We’re left with massive post-holi- Dervis has more than 100 Yankees of football, having supplant- day hangovers for the rst couple of grandchildren and great-grand- ed the Dallas Cowboys as the NFL weeks. Even for those of us who can’t children, and “she loves all of team you most want to hate. wait for all the festivities to cease, them,” Dorvilas-Gredeon said. But it occurred to me after Saturday there is a void. Winter dawns with “She’s held pretty much every- night’s loss to the Tennessee Titans houses festooned with lights and oth- body in the family (as a baby).” in the Wild Card round of the playoffs er decorations, and they do a good job that we’ll have to forego one of the BIRTHDAY, A3 most bene cial aspects of this long, KRAUSE, A3 ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Superintendent will discuss School Opportunity Act By Gayla Cawley “It’s an opportunity for me to interface with At both the superintendent and school coun- ITEM STAFF members of the community about budget pri- cil budget sessions, plans for how to direct the orities,” said Tutwiler. “We don’t want to do our funding will be based on how to support the LYNN — Superintendent Dr. Patrick Tutwil- thinking and our planning behind closed doors. furthering of the core values laid out in the er is holding two community budget sessions We really want to make sure that we’re bring- district’s ve-year strategic plan. The ambi- this month, which will allow families to weigh ing to bear on this budget planning effort the tious document was approved over the fall and in on how an anticipated increase in state fund- voices of the community.” is focused on developing an inclusive learning ing should be spent in the Lynn Public Schools In addition, Tutwiler has directed the dis- environment that allows each student to meet next year. trict’s 25 school principals to hold school-site their full potential. The rst meeting will be held on Thursday, council meetings to solicit input for how ad- The expected increase in state aid to the city’s Jan. 16 at 6 p.m. in the Thurgood Marshall ditional funding should be allocated in their public schools next year is due to the landmark Middle School library. A second session will be respective scal year 2021 budgets. Those Student Opportunity Act that was passed by on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at the Lynn Classical High meetings are underway and are required to be Dr. Patrick Tutwiler School library. completed by Friday, Feb. 14, Tutwiler said. TUTWILER, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 HIGH 37° VOL. 142, ISSUE 23 OPINION ...................................A4 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 32° COMMUNITY CALENDAR ............A5 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 HEALTH .....................................B8 PAGE A8 $1.50 A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2020 OBITUARIES Elaine A. Jordan, 80 Harold R. Fall Jr., 90 James M. McCarthy, 73 1939-2019 HUDSON, Fla. — Elaine A. PEABODY — Harold R. Fall Jr., LITTLETON — James M. Mc- (Perry) Jordan, age 80, of age 90, of Peabody, formally Carthy, age 73, of Littleton, Hudson, Fla., and formerly of of Lynn eld, died Wednesday, formerly of Lynn, passed away Lynn, died on Tuesday, Dec. Jan. 1 at Brudnick Center in on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 at 24, 2019 at her home fol- Peabody surrounded by loving the Lifecare of Nashoba Valley lowing a brief illness. She was family. He was the husband after a lengthy illness. He was the wife of the late Robert Jor- of Nadia L. (Dyer) Fall, with the husband of Kathy (Fra- dan, who predeceased her in whom he shared 69 years of ga) McCarthy, with whom he 1994. marriage. shared 34 years of marriage. Born in Lynn in 1939, Elaine Born in Swampscott, he Born in Boston, he was was the daughter of the late was the son of the late Har- the son of the late Thomas Leonard and Doris (Rogers) old R. Fall Sr. and Frances J. and Anna M. (Harrington) Perry. She was raised and (Wentworth) Fall. He attend- McCarthy. He was raised in educated in Lynn and gradu- ed Swampscott schools and Charlestown and was a grad- ated from Lynn English High graduated from Swampscott uate of Cathedral High School School. High School in 1948 and in Boston. He had earned an Elaine began working in the earned an Associate’s Degree Associate’s Degree in Me- Election Department at Lynn in Horticulture from Stock- chanical Engineering and had City Hall and later worked as bridge School of Agriculture at also attended many certi ca- husband Linton of Georgia. of New Hampshire and Robert Service information: A fu- a records clerk for the Lynn University of Massachusetts. tion classes at Northeastern She is also survived by her Fall of Florida; four grandchil- neral service will be held on Police Department until her He served in the U.S. Navy University and Wentworth In- many nieces, nephews, cous- dren, Diane, Kimberly, Corey his birthday, Tuesday, Jan. 7, retirement. She was a former during the Korean War.

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