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    Monday, May 13, 2024

    Hundreds pay final respects to slain Boston doctors

    A mourner, left, weeps as the ashes of Drs. Lina Bolanos and Richard Field are carried down the steps of Gate of Heaven Catholic Church following a funeral service Friday, May 12, 2017, in Boston. The engaged couple were killed in their luxury Boston penthouse condominium last week. Bampumim Teixeira, who once worked at the condominium, has been charged with two counts of murder. (JohnTlumacki/The Boston Globe via AP)

    BOSTON (AP) — Family, friends and colleagues poured into a Boston church to pay final respects to two engaged doctors killed in their luxury Boston penthouse condominium last week.

    Media were not allowed into Gate of Heaven Catholic Church for Friday's service, but those who attended told said it was a beautiful and emotional tribute to Drs. Lina Bolanos and Richard Field.

    The doctors were remembered for their love of family, their sense of adventure and their dedication to their patients.

    Nurse Melissa Bavin told The Boston Globe that Field was an amazing man and a friend to everyone.

    Bampumim Teixeira has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder in the deaths. He was shot by police at the scene.

    Teixeira once worked at the condominium for about three weeks.

    At Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Monday, May 8, 2017, Bampumim Teixeira, accused of murdering two engaged doctors in their South Boston penthouse condominium, lies in a hospital bed. Teixeira was wounded when confronted by Boston police inside the condo where he allegedly murdered the doctors. (David L Ryan/The Boston Globe, Pool)

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