91-Year-Old Civil Rights Leader Jean McGuire Stable after being Stabbed Multiple Times
Jean McGuire, a 91-year-old woman and a Black American civil rights leader, is expected to survive after being stabbed multiple times in a Boston park.
Ms McGuire was the first Black social worker to work in Boston public schools and was stabbed five times while walking through a park in Boston.
She was also the first woman of colour elected to the Boston School Committee in 1981, station WGBH reports. As a civil rights leader, she helped found METCO, Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, a program in the 1960s as a way to help desegregate Boston schools.
According to People, she was walking her dog through Playstead Park in Jamaica Plain at about 8:30 pm when a yet-to-be-identified person approached her and stabbed her multiple times.
Mayor Michelle Wu, the city mayor, met with Ms McGuire as she recuperated in the hospital and said: "I'm disgusted and angry to know that an elder in our community had to fear for her safety going about her daily routine [and] walking her dog."
Boston police are investigating the incident and have asked anyone with relevant information on the suspect's location to share it.