Thomas Higgins

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First name
Thomas
Last name
Higgins
Age
20
Other
Grave
3
Permit
11880
Place of death
St. John's Episcopal Hospital
Permit date
09-23-1980
Date of death
08-28-1980
Burial date
10-28-1980
Source code
A1980_10_17_Vol3_015.pdf

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This is our Brother Tommy and the girls are his three sisters Annie, Edi & Kathy in the white jacket.
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Thomas Higgins was a 21 year old from Far Rockaway who was murdered after "defending his sister and her boyfriend in a dispute between them and her former boyfriend," according to the police writeup of the incident. After his sister, Edith Colwell, was hit multiple times with a baseball bat by the former boyfriend and his group of friends, Thomas intervened, and was beaten and stabbed, then later pronounced dead on arrival at St. John's Episcopal Hospital; his sister and her boyfriend survived.


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