As various community and wellness leaders gathered at a circle of healing event in the Williamsbridge Oval park in Norwood on Tuesday evening, Aug. 12, as part of a preorganized effort to help local youth process their feelings following the fatal stabbing of 14-year-old Ángel Miguel Mendoza Hernández inside the packed park one week earlier on Aug. 5, the peaceful gathering was abruptly and seemingly deliberately and maliciously disrupted by a group of motorized bike riders.

As reported , some local young people had previously shared some of their thoughts with residents and with the Norwood News on the brutal gang assault, with one young person saying she believed the stabbing was pre-planned, and that in the weeks leading up to it, she had noticed a group of youths frequenting the

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