SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – In early March of 2012, 25-year-old legislation pupil Jessica Rojas was murdered by her boyfriend. Every year since, the household has referred to as consideration to her mindless dying. This yr it was motorcade to Oak Grove cemetery.
“Yearly, round her birthday and yearly because it occurred, we’re out right here supporting home violence consciousness. And we now have sources for girls going via it,” Dinessa Rodriguez, Jessica’s sister, instructed 22News.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno took half in Saturday’s motorcade that will conclude at Jessica’s last resting place. Jessica had been a metropolis worker on the time of her dying.
“It’s stunning that folks would deal with one another that method,” Mayor Sarno stated. “Jessica was a sweetheart, a younger girl who labored in my legislation division, had a profession path, and now she’s taken away from us.”
Nonetheless extra stunning, says the Mayor, is that Springfield Police obtain no fewer than 10,000 home violence calls yearly. The frequency of such calls has a deep impact on Springfield Superintendent of Police, Cheryl Clapprood.
“It’s an explosive name,” Superintendent Clapprood stated. “It’s harmful for the household, the end result, even when you save somebody’s life. It’s emotional, it takes a toll.”
The motorcade would pause at close by Washburn Avenue within the North Finish when it handed the house the place Jessica Rojas had lived, then proceeded on to the cemetery throughout the town.
