Teen dies trying to save father in home invasion: Alleged gang pair nabbed in slayings

The Boston Herald ^ | May 18, 2005 | Tom Farmer

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Teen dies trying to save father in home invasion: Alleged gang pair nabbed in slayings By Tom Farmer Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - Updated: 06:19 PM EST

A heroic Lynn teenager sacrificed her own life in a vain attempt to save her handicapped father from a hail of bullets allegedly fired by Asian gangbangers late Monday.

Both Amy Dumas, 16, and her father, Robert Finnerty Sr., 47, were killed in the shocking home invasion that may have followed a thwarted attempt by the killers to buy drugs.

``She got in front of him. She was trying to protect him,'' a tearful Debbie Patrazza said of Dumas, her niece.

``Who would think he would be shot sitting in his chair with his 16-year-old daughter trying to protect him,'' Patrazza said of Finnerty, her brother-in-law.

Finnerty and Dumas were shot multiple times just after 11 p.m. Monday when four men forced their way into their Cottage Street apartment, authorities said. Within minutes, two reputed gang members, Chon Son, 19, and Phap Buth, 30, of Revere, were under arrest. Two others are being sought.

Son, who sources said belongs to the ``Oriental Boys'' gang and is well known to local police, was arrested at an apartment building two streets away that prosecutor John Brennan said is known for Asian gang activity. Police seized a Tech-9 semiautomatic handgun and a .380-caliber handgun on a third-floor landing where Son was standing, he said.

[rave123]

You mean only blacks/latinos/italians are capable of being gangbangers. Never Asians

[rave123]

That's funny.

[rave123]

Who's locked up does not always constitute ruthlessness. Because drug charges carry such high penalties, most prisons are filled with drug cases and most of them are for selling drugs not killing people because of drugs.
Also, many Hispanics, Asians, and Russians flee after they have committed a crime. You need to get a better grasp on what's happening in the world. I think many posters have given you an idea of what is meant by true ruthlessness.

[rave123]

In that case, Asians do better than whites.

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Criminals are criminals, drug dealers or muggers or pimps. Whatever illegality they engage in. Such people tend to be gangsters and thugs (of course not always!), a very very small percentage tends to be the peaceful neighbor type, so your statement of "what's happening in the world" doesn't stick.

I understand the idea that you want to remind me of, kind of a Kung Fu supervillain scenario right? Like in the movies. Even if that were true and close to being close in terms of violence and power to intimide to actual Black and Latino gang activity, as opposed to the supervillain idea, I still stand by my statement that Asians and Russians in the U.S. don't tend to have gangs as Blacks and Latinos do they're more like gypsies and organized crime companies. When they get locked up they usually have to take a back seat to the ghetto gangsters of the Mexican Mafia and the Black Guerilla Family and other prison shotcallers that are usually Black or Latino. Why? Because they're afraid of what would happen to them if they don't.