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‘We failed the city of Boston’: how a racist manhunt led to chaos in 1989

Carol and Charles Stuart in Murder In Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning
Carol and Charles Stuart in Murder In Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning Photograph: Photograph by Ira Wyman/Sygma via Getty Images/Courtesy of HBO

“My wife’s been shot. I’ve been shot.”

On 23 October 1989 Charles “Chuck” Stuart, who was white, called 911 to report that he and his pregnant wife, Carol, had been carjacked and shot by a Black man in Boston’s Mission Hill neighbourhood. Carol died that night. Their baby died days after being born. Stuart survived and garnered nationwide sympathy.

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