It took a moment after the ball skipped off the catcher’s glove at Fenway Park for Ted Williams to realize this was no regular game. “I looked into the stands,” he recalled many years later, “and a guy was shot. I took off my bat and went back to the clubhouse. I mean, what kind of thing was this?”
At first, people thought it might be a lover’s quarrel gone wrong or a random violent act. “But as soon as I took off my cap and put my head in, I knew the guy wasn’t getting up,” an eyewitness said later. “A lot of kids were screaming; it was pure chaos.”
Twenty-five years went by before something similar happened – the 1979 shootings. “The media was there instantaneously,” notes a veteran security expert. Authorities are trying to determine whether this is a series of random ‘lone wolves’ or possibly a coordinated plot by a local terror cell using the Red Sox as a targeting device. But for now, the exact relationship between the first and second victims remains unclear – and authorities believe there may yet be more attempts.
