It’s been a somber couple of weeks for Brockton’s Cape Verdean community, community advocate Leny Monteiro told The Enterprise.
On Saturday, Sept. 5, a passenger bus plunged into a ravine on Cape Verde’s Fogo island, leading to the deaths of 25 people, mostly teenagers and children. Then, in the early hours of Sunday morning, Sept. 6, a mass shooting at a backyard house party in Taunton claimed the life of Zirovick De Pina, 22, of Brockton. Seven other people were also shot, the DA’s office said.
“While our Cape Verdean community in Cabo Verde and throughout the diaspora grieves, here at home Brockton is once again mourning a young life lost to gun violence,” Monteiro wrote in a Sept. 7 Facebook post…