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Peabody native killed in fall from Boston roof
"It's just not sinking in," Dorothy Glenn said last night in the kitchen of her Winona Street home in West Peabody. "I still feel like he'll be here. I haven't seen him, when I see him ...," she says before her voice trails off.
Dow, a junior photography student at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, was pronounced dead at Brigham and Women's Hospital following a fall Saturday from the roof of an apartment building at 14 Glenville Ave., in the Brighton section of Boston.
Police and EMS responded to that address at 2:30 a.m. following a report of a fight.
Boston police are investigating Dow's death but said in a press release, "It is believed the victim died as a result of blunt trauma sustained from a fall. However, the cause of death is still under investigation at this time."
The lack of information about what happened in the hours before her son's death is frustrating, Glenn said, adding she's relying on bits and pieces of information from his friends and the media. Some say there was a fight in the building at the time of the fatal fall, but that leaves Dow's family with more questions.
"He wasn't the type of kid to start a fight," Glenn said.
"What happened? I don't know," said Dow's grandmother, Maria Glenn. "All I could say is he's not a troublesome kid. All in all, he was a well-behaved, very caring, very helpful child."
Maria Glenn recounted how Dow and older brother, David, who is an art student at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, would help her around the house after their grandfather, Norman, died.
They said Dow was a hard worker, both in high school and when he worked at a Hannaford supermarket. Dow worked in the deli department at Marty's Liquor on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston.
Like his older brother, Dow was pursuing an education in the arts.
He took up photography while a student at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School. He signed up for as many classes as the school offered. When he graduated in 2005, he wanted to go to Boston where he hoped to get a job working for a magazine, Dow's mother said.
Funeral arrangements with Conway Funeral Home on Lynn Street will be made today, according to his mother.
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