Benine Timothee, a Haitian immigrant, was shot and killed in Boston in 2016. No arrests have been made. For LastSeenPodcast, investigative reporter sdooling searches for answers about Benine's mysterious and tragic death. Listen now:
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And even a few months after she died there were some stories about the investigation. But six years later, we still have no idea what actually happened. And, the family is asking more questions, revolving around a theory that was generated in the community following Benine’s death. A theory involving the police and a cover up. And those questions deserve answers., our show about people, places and things that have gone missing. Fom WBUR, Boston’s NPR station.And today, in part one of a three-part series, independent investigative reporter Shannon Dooling searches for: A Family’s Peace.
She was walking to visit with a friend who lived nearby. On her way, she stopped to buy an international calling card — it was the cheapest way to get in touch with her family back in Haiti. She popped into SKB’s, a small store on the corner of Washington and Morse — a stop she’d made many times before if the family was running low on milk or paper towels.
She’s neatly dressed with colorful tops and skirts, wearing a straw hat with a pink flower on the front. In one photo, she’s leaning up against a shiny white car with Massachusetts plates in a tree lined driveway. She’s wearing a blazer and skirt the color of cotton candy. Her hair is up, swept away from her face and she’s looking directly at what, or who, is in front of her.
Jephte: We don't live far away from here. Like we be on the street almost all the time. So when I'm, when I'm usually passing, I just keep my head straight. Because since my mom passed, I never been to the store because it's kind of hard for me to stand exactly where my mom was shot. So every time I'm passing, I just trying to keep my head straight. Like if I'm driving, I just keep my head straight up, not don't even look at it.
After first arriving in Florida, he ended up in Boston. It’s home to the third largest Haitian community in the U.S., behind New York and Miami. Jephte: And we were just walking in the street and stuff like that and I had shorts on and she had a big jeans and a big jacket on and she was saying that, oh, she's cold and stuff like that. And I was saying, Don't I like this weather? And she, she, she kind of grabbed me. She was like, put some coat on or something like that because it's cold.And then walking around Boston — seeing skyscrapers up close for the first time.
Shannon: That’s Nicole Albert, affectionately known as Ms. Nicole. She has a warm energy about her, the kind of person who might hug you the first time you meet them, instead of just shaking hands. Her kind eyes sometimes get lost behind her glasses. Ms. Nicole’s three sons are grown and out of the house, so she pours herself into her work — and the people who spend time there, like Benine did. She says Benine was social and eager to learn English. She wanted to become a nursing assistant.
Shannon: They were developing a friendship, a connection that Ms. Nicole still feels with Benine’s family. A bond that was cemented when Benine was killed just across the street from the community center.
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