Tom Matthews
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Sandra Frimpong, a former resident of 7 Lowell St. in Worcester, was clear in court Friday: She does not forgive Momoh Kamara, but told him to ask God for forgiveness.
Kamarapleaded guilty in Worcester Superior Court Friday在5 - 7洛厄尔开始火圣12月9日2018, which resulted in the death of Worcester Firefighter Christopher Roy.
Roy became trapped on the second floor of the Lowell Street residence and succumbed to his injuries after his colleagues pulled him from the burning building.
Video: Christopher Roy, Worcester (MA) Fire Department
Worcester Superior Judge Daniel Wrenn sentenced Karmara to concurrent sentences of 14 to 16 years on manslaughter and arson charges and five years of probation on armed burglary and malicious destruction charges.
Frimpong was one of several people who shared victim impact statements in court Friday. Others included the fallen firefighter’s brother, Jay Roy; the Roy family; Ava Roy and David Scavone, a friend of Christopher Roy. Another former resident and the mother of a boy who had slept over a friend’s apartment at 7 Lowell St. on Dec. 8, 2019, also spoke.
Frimpong shared that she had worked hard to get her family into the Lowell Street apartment after having lived in public housing.
Looking at Momoh Kamara in court Friday, she addressed him saying, “You didn’t think of no one.”
Frimpong pointed out all of the children, parents and grandparents that lived in the apartments and how the fire could have potentially hurt them physically.
“Every time I sleep at night, I’m always smelling fire in my nose,” she said. “But God sent an angel. And that angel is Christopher Roy.”
Frimpong said she and her family are back in public housing now after losing everything in the fire.
“I hope when you sit in that cell you think of what you did and ask God for forgiveness,” she said.
艾米·罗宾逊,他的儿子是参观和睡觉over a friend’s apartment at 7 Lowell St., said the smell of smoke permeated on her son’s skin and hair for weeks following the fire.
Robinson said her son’s grades have dropped, and that he now suffers from PTSD during fire drills at school.
Reading his victim impact statement Friday, Jay Roy said he lost more than a brother.
“A piece of my soul was violently ripped out of me, and I will never be the same person,” he read. “My brother and I had a connection that went beyond what words can describe…Nothing will bring him back to us. All we can do is honor him and cherish the memories, and most importantly to live our lives and persevere through this tragedy like he would want us to.”
Ava Roy, who is now 12, wrote in her victim impact statement that she’d never forget the day she learned about her father’s death.
“Each and every one of my tears are a memory and sometimes I don’t want to hold them in, I want to share them with him again and so I will,” Ava wrote. “I always feel a relief of stress after those little moments. I love you dad.”
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