MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019 Playground shooting leaves 1 dead in Lynn By Gayla Cawley explaining that medics on scene and Thor Jourgensen made the determination that there ITEM STAFF wasn’t enough time to take the man to MGH as well. LYNN — A man is dead and three Later that night, a fourth victim others were injured in a shooting at showed up at Salem Hospital. The Cara E. Murtagh Warren Street Playground Satur- 49-year-old man was shot and his day night, police said. The 34-year-old man, whom po- dog was also hit with gun re, Zu- Peabody lice have not identi ed, was shot in kas said. the head and went into traumatic The dog was treated, but had to be cardiac arrest. He was later pro- put down, according to Lynn Police super nounced dead at Salem Hospital, Lt. Michael Kmiec. police and re of cials said. Police and re responded to the Two women, 18 and 20 years old, Warren Street shooting shortly focuses found with gunshot wounds, were after 7 p.m. Shots rang out as an taken to Massachusetts General East/West Lynn youth basketball Hospital with serious injuries, ac- game and a nearby block party on safety cording to Lynn Fire Capt. Joseph were in full swing. Ward 6 Council- Zukas, the city’s emergency medi- or Fred Hogan, one of the founding By Thor Jourgensen cal services director. members of the Stop the Violence ITEM STAFF Police later said the women’s inju- Lynn initiative, said he was walk- PEABODY — School ries were non-life-threatening. ing up to the playground and heard “We only go to Mass General for Superintendent Cara E. SHOOTING, A3 Murtagh said she is bal- very serious injuries,” said Zukas, ancing her enthusiasm about the rst day of school Sept. 3 with a re- minder that a successful academic year boils down to focusing on “every stu- A Lynn eld void dent every day.” “That is my leadership motto,” she said. that can’t be lled Murtagh is starting her second year as the leader By Thor Jourgensen Village of a 6,000-student school and Thomas Grillo Pharmacy system run by 1,000 ed- ITEM STAFF owner Brian Ambrefe’s ucators, administrators LYNNFIELD — Brian Ambrefe’s and other employees in photo is on death Friday at his Main Street busi- various supporting roles. display in She was in the driver’s ness ignited an outpouring of condo- his business seat last year as the city’s lences and turned Village Pharmacy following his lead educator, but being into a place to mourn the beloved death last new to the superinten- pharmacist. Friday. dent’s job meant she need- A 911 emergency call sent re ght- ed time to listen and learn ers to Village on Friday at 4:23 p.m. in ITEM PHOTO | from colleagues, elected response to a medical emergency. Jeff THOR JOURGENSEN PHOTO | JOE BROWN of cials and parents while Fiorentino, Lynn eld Fire Depart- developing strategic plans ment spokesman, declined Sunday to Police tape remained visible Sunday morning at the scene of for the schools. a triple shooting at Warren Street Playground Saturday night. Now it’s time, said the LYNNFIELD, A3 The park was cleaned up later in the day. career Peabody school em- ployee, to put the plans into action. BELLA diGRAZIA “Safety and communi- cation are two of my top COMMENTARY goals. We have to make kids safe, happy and healthy. This triggers Amazon re hits home down to our entire staff — then learning can begin,” BRAZIL — The “lungs of the The trees in the Amazon store Murtagh said. earth” have been on re for three carbon absorbed in the atmo- Do your best every day weeks. Some people don’t know it’s sphere, each year taking in as much is the essence of her work happening, and many don’t under- as 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide, motto, but Murtagh’s lead- stand how it affects the world. ership approach is guided a greenhouse gas that contributes by what she calls a “vision Sixty percent of the Amazon, the to global warming, said AP. The of the graduate.” From her world’s largest rainforest, lies in billions of trees also release water perspective, every phase Brazil. It holds 20 percent of the vapor that form a thick mist over of education during child- planet’s oxygen and is home to 20 the rainforest canopy, which rises PHOTO | ASSOCIATED PRESS hood and adolescence can percent of the world’s plant spe- into the clouds and produces rain, be broken down into the Fire ghters work to put out res in the Vila Nova Sam- cies, many of which can’t be found affecting weather patterns and ag- role it plays in preparing uel region, along the road to Jacunda National Forest anywhere else, according to an As- riculture across several countries. near the city of Porto Velho in Rondonia state, part of sociated Press story posted by the PEABODY, A3 Brazil’s Amazon, Sunday. Washington Post. AMAZON, A3 Celebrating culture and community Deputy fakes own shooting LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County deputy lied when he said he was shot in the shoul- der while standing in a sheriff’s station parking lot last week and will face a criminal investigation, authorities said. “The reported sniper as- sault was fabricated” by Deputy Angel Reinosa, Assistant Sheriff Robin Limon said at a news con- ference late Saturday. PHOTO | PAULA MULLER Reinosa, 21, made a frantic radio call Wednes- INSIDE day claiming he’d been shot by someone in a LOOK! Entertainment Sports nearby building as he Above, Festival La Voz drew Division 1 football Lynn fans spend Zombies come walked to his car outside more than a thousand to beckons for Merrimack’s quality time with to life at the Lancaster station, Fraser Field in Lynn to Shepherd, Doherty. B1 Bad Company. A7 Beverly’s Cabot. A7 celebrate Latino culture. A8 DEPUTY, A3 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 ENTERTAINMENT .......................A7 COMICS/DIVERSIONS ........... B4-5 OPINION ...................................A4 HIGH 70° VOL. 141, ISSUE 220 LOOK! .......................................A8 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 COMMUNITY CALENDAR ............A5 LOW 57° SPORTS ................................ B1-3 HEALTH .....................................B8 ONE DOLLAR POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 PAGE A8 A2 THE DAILY ITEM MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019 OBITUARIES Energy companies Anita H. Kester, 93 Lillian M. Robinson, 84 spending millions PEABODY — Mrs. Anita H. LYNN — Mrs. Lillian M. (Dai- lobbying Beacon Hill (Humphrey) Kester, age 93, gle) Robinson, age 84, of of Peabody and formerly of Lynn, passed peacefully, sur- By Steve LeBlanc the rise of solar, hydro Swampscott, died on Wednes- rounded by her loving family, ASSOCIATED PRESS and wind power, including day, Aug. 21, 2019 at the Care on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019 what could be the nation’s Dimensions Hospice House at the Kaplan Family Hospice BOSTON — Companies largest industrial-scale in Lincoln following a lengthy House. She was the wife of representing a range of wind farm south of Mar- and courageous battle with the late John “Jack” Robinson. energy interests, from tha’s Vineyard known as cancer. She resided at Brooks- A lifelong resident of Lynn, old-school oil and gas to Vineyard Wind. renewables like solar and by Village in Peabody for the she was the daughter of the The growth of renewable wind power, are pumping past 17 years. Anita was the late Francis John and Johan- energy is in part due to a millions into lobbying ef- wife of the late Waldemar C. na Lillian (Shinnick) Daigle. 2016 bipartisan energy bill forts in Massachusetts. Kester, who predeceased her She attended Lynn schools signed by Republican Gov. In 2018, as many as 70 in 1991, and with whom she and had earned a Bachelor Charlie Baker that autho- energy businesses and shared more than 43 years of Degree in Math from Salem rized the largest procure- marriage. State College. advocacy groups report- ed spending at least $5.3 ment of clean energy gen- Born and raised in Auburn, Over her lifetime Lillian had eration in Massachusetts’ Maine, she was the daugh- worked for the Massachusetts million trying to get their messages through to Bea- history, including approxi- ter of the late Eugene W. and Department of Revenue, Lynn mately 1,600 megawatts of Amy I. (White) Humphrey. She municant at the Church of the Economic Opportunity and great-grandchildren, Benjamin con Hill legislators and Holy Name. At BBV, she was and Bailey Wortman. She was policymakers, according offshore wind energy. graduated from Edward Lit- Greater Lynn Mental Health. The lobbying also comes tle High School in Lewiston, an active member of the wel- also the mother of the late to an Associated Press Lillian had great pride and as the state has lost a ma- Maine, Class of 1944, with coming committee, a founding Matthew Daigle. review of public lobbying affection for the City of Lynn, jor energy producer. The high honors. Passing on a member of the classical music Service information: Lil- records. Some of the top her neighborhood and its Pilgrim nuclear power full scholarship offer to Bates committee and a member of lian’s wishes, ful lled by her spenders were involved in residents. She loved good plant in Plymouth, which College, Anita chose instead the religious community. family, were to be cremated renewable energy. conversation or debate, and began generating electric- to help the WWII effort by pur- Most assuredly, however, and then buried with her The spending was much could often be found talking ity in 1972, was perma- suing and receiving a degree Anita’s greatest accomplish- husband Jack.