“We are here today to provide comfort, and insist upon change,” organizer Benjamin Siegel said during the vigil.
When Ken Inghram started speaking to the crowd gathered next to the Forest Hills MBTA station in remembrance of his brother Glenn, he had to pause a few times. Large vehicles whizzing down Hyde Park Avenue and buses pulling out of the station were drowning him out.
“He wanted to go to Maine, he wanted a place by the coast. His dream of Maine came to an end right over there,” Ken said, gesturing to the intersection of Tower Street and Hyde Park Avenue.
Glenn Inghram was crossing the street just before noon on Saturday, Oct. 12 when an MBTA bus turned left and ran him over, lawyers for the Inghram family said. Glenn, a former college history professor and gardener, died on Sunday of his injuries at a local hospital. He was 63 years old…