WORCESTER Shouts of basta! enough! rose from Chandler Street on Friday evening, as friends, family and community members gathered to remember Carlos Cruz, who was gunned down outside the Paku Lounge Restaurant last week.
Cruz, 44, had been at the restaurant and had allegedly retrieved a gun from his car as a confrontation between two groups appeared to be heating up outside, according to court testimony during the arraignment of Angel Ortiz-Santos, 28.
Ortiz-Santos was arraigned this week on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injuries and possession of a firearm without a license, in connection with the May 8 slaying.
Carlos Cruz, slain Worcester father of four, remembered for ‘giant-sized heart’ at vigil as loved ones call for end to gun violence
Updated May 14, 2021;
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Since Sunday, in the hours after Carlos Cruz was gunned down in Worcester, people mentioned two things about the father of four: his “big smile” and his “giant-sized heart.”
Recalling that memory to a group of mourners at a vigil on Friday afternoon, Cruz’s brother Javier Pena pointed out that Worcester is known as the “Heart of the Commonwealth.”
“Carlos Miguel Cruz was the heart of Worcester,” Pena told the several dozen friends and family members who stood outside the Paku Lounge at 215 Chandler St., where Cruz was shot over the weekend.
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Motorcyclist critically injured in crash in Massachusetts town; Other driver suffers minor wounds MassLive.com 2 hrs ago Jackson Cote, masslive.com
A two-vehicle crash in a Massachusetts town late Tuesday left a motorcyclist critically injured and the other driver with minor wounds, police said.
The crash involving the motorcycle and car was reported around 9:40 p.m. at the intersection of Main Street and Carol Lane on Route 109 in Medway, according to a statement from the town’s police chief, Allen M. Tingley.
The initial investigation into the crash revealed both vehicles were traveling east on Main Street when the motorcyclist, a 51-year-old Medway man, tried to make a left turn onto Carol Lane and was struck by the car, Tingley said.
Candlelight vigil planned for Carlos Cruz, widowed father of 4 slain near Worcester restaurant
Updated May 12, 2021;
Posted May 12, 2021
Forty-four-year-old Carlos Cruz, pictured to the right, was shot and killed near the Paku Lounge in Worcester on May 8, 2021. He s remembered by his four sons, two of whom are now without both a father and a mother. A GoFundMe page has been set up to support Cruz s youngest sons in the wake of his death. Their mother died in 2019 from a brain aneurysm. (Courtesy the Cruz family)
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To promote unity and reflect on the life of Carlos Cruz, a candlelight vigil will be held Friday evening in memory of the widowed father of four who was slain near a Worcester restaurant last week.