NATICK – Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz testified in opposition before the
Massachusetts Parole Board this week at the petition for release hearing of 48-year-old Kuluwn Asar, formerly known as Gerard McCra III.
On October 9, 1993, then 15-year-old Gerard McCra, argued with both of his parents. McCra possessed a firearm and later that same day, shot his mother, Merle McCra, 36, in the head, inside their family home in Rochester. McCra then went outside and executed his father, Gerard McCra, Jr., 34, and his sister, 11-year-old Melanie, shooting them in the back of their heads inside the family car as he sat in the backseat…