Luis Bodden-Maximo had spent the last two months of his life looking over his shoulder, fearing that any day could be his last, the young man’s grief-stricken mother said Sunday.
Unfortunately, his worst fear came true last week when the 23-year-old was gunned down in the middle of the afternoon in a busy Stop & Shop parking lot in Mission Hill in what police described as a gang-related murder.
“I tried everything I could possibly do to save him,” Bodden-Maximo’s mother, Melinda Bodden, 42, said in a phone interview. “It’s like he didn’t have a chance to be a better person.”
Bodden said her son had recently completed a several-year stint in prison for possession of a Class B substance. He was working on turning his life around, Bodden said, noting he had snagged a job at a Cheesecake Factory and a Starbucks. But the streets wouldn’t let him leave, she said.
“He gained enemies on the street and it took my son’s life,” Bodden said. “The enemies have been on his back since he been
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