Wounded police officers praised at East Boston vigil
The police captain who heads the East Boston district station fought tears Thursday night when he praised the heroism of the officers wounded in Wednesday’s shooting, and their colleagues who saved their lives amid a chaotic gun battle.
“They did everything they could,” said Boston police Captain Kelley McCormick, who oversees district A-7. “For the neighborhood, for their fellow officers, for themselves. They kept themselves alive, they kept their fellow officers alive.”
McCormick repeatedly paused to compose himself as he spoke to reporters under a steady rain outside the district station on Paris Street, following a prayer vigil for Officers Richard Cintolo and Matthew Morris.
Cintolo, his classmate at the police academy, and Morris were both “resting comfortably” on Thursday night at Mass. General Hospital, where they had earlier undergone life-saving surgery and blood transfusions, he said.
Officials said they remained in critical condition Thursday.
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