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THIS TREE PLANTED
IN CELEBRATION
OF THE LIFE OF

RAMONA COOPER
October 22, 1960 - June 26, 2021







"...On Sunday, June 26, at 9 a.m., at 120 Shirley St., members of the community are invited to join town leaders in planting trees in remembrance of Winthrop residents Ramona Cooper and David Green. The trees will be planted alongside plaques bearing the names of Cooper and Green....."
"The Town of Winthrop held a tree-planting ceremony to celebrate the lives of David Green and Ramona Cooper, two beloved residents who were shot and killed by a gunman on June 26, 2021...."
"WINTHROP — Ray Green shoveled soil around a young October Glory maple tree a few steps from where his brother, David Green, was shot and killed in a white supremacist terrorist’s rampage one year ago......"
"On Sunday — a year after an extremist killed a retired Massachusetts State Trooper and veteran Air Force officer in a racially-motivated fatal shooting in Winthrop — city officials, community members and friends and family of the victims gathered to pay tribute to the Black lives lost in the senseless act of violence....."
"Hundreds of mourners gathered outside Winthrop Town Hall on Thursday to commemorate the lives of two people who were killed in a shooting that’s being investigated as a hate crime......"
"Hundreds of people filled the town green in Winthrop on Thursday evening to remember two of their own who died in what authorities describe as "an execution" that may have been motivated by hate. Both victims were Black....."
"Community members will gather on Thursday for a vigil in Winthrop to honor the lives of a retired state trooper and an Air Force veteran who were executed in a murderous rampage that authorities are now investigating as a hate crime......"
"David L. Green and Ramona Cooper, the two victims who were shot to death by a gunman who left behind white supremacist writings in Winthrop, Massachusetts, were heroes, the district attorney said in a news conference, praising their lives of service......."
 
Location: Shirley Ave. near Veterans Road
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David Green and Ramona Cooper Bench


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