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.
By Taylor Bruck Cleveland
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WORCESTER Easter Sunday was just another day for St. Vincent nurses picketing outside the hospital, as the union entered the fifth week of its strike.
But the nurses celebrated the holiday with an Easter fun day, giving pickets a chance to at least be with their families as they fulfilled their strike duties, said Sandy Ellis, Central Mass. community organizer for the Massachusetts Nurses Association that is backing the union in its dispute with Tenet Healthcare.
“It’s not lost on us this is the first holiday families are able to get together with their families,” she said, referring to the more widespread vaccinations in Massachusetts since the winter holiday season.