More than 30 years after a high school basketball star with a “heart like a gladiator” was killed by four people around his age, the men responsible have been given an unlikely second chance.

At about 4 a.m. on March 28, 1993, Kevin Christopher, 23, and 21-year-old Lloyd Industrious, cousins, were killed after leaving a party in Mattapan.

Eyewitnesses told officials a group involving 20-year-old Marcus Edwards , 20-year-old Michael Payne , 18-year-old Lonnie Watkins, and a 15- year-old fired several shots into a vehicle that the two men had been sitting in in Dorchester. One of the people took a gold necklace from Christopher, and ran from the scene.

Christopher had 11 gunshot wounds and Industrious had seven gunshot wounds. They both died due to their injuries.

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