BOSTON — Three armed law-enforcement officials, driving separate unmarked cars, pulled into the empty parking lot outside the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mattapan shortly after 7 a.m. on Saturday. One conferred with a church official, then retreated to his vehicle and watched as a black hearse from Riley Funeral Home approached with flashing lights and procession flags waving. Five men opened the church’s doors and exited to help haul a white casket with brass handles up three steps. Inside laid the body of Odin Lloyd. Lloyd, a 27-year-old landscaper who moonlighted as a linebacker for the Boston Bandits of the New England Football League, was dressed in all white. The lining of his coffin was embroidered with the words “Going Home” and an image of a dove flying skyward. His casket was carried, then placed on a roller and pushed in front of an altar emblazoned with “Alleluia.” His No. 53 Bandits jersey stood framed on an easel nearby. “I don’t know if I can do this,” a friend said as she stood looking up the aisle. At the front of the church, Lloyd’s sister, Shaquilla, openly sobbed. “Why? Why? Why?” she said as her sister, Olivia, consoled… Read full this story
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