More than 34 years after Alan Swanson and Willie Bennett were wrongfully arrested and accused of committing a crime that shocked the city, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu issued a formal apology to the two men.
At a Wednesday press conference at City Hall, Wu issued an apology to the two Black men who were linked to the murder of Carol Stuart, a pregnant woman who was shot and killed by her husband, Charles Stuart, on Oct. 23, 1989.
“I am so sorry for the pain that you have carried for so many years. What was done to you was unjust, unfair, racist and wrong and this apology is long overdue,” Wu said to Swanson and members of Bennett’s family, who stood in for him at the announcement.