Brockton man killed in double shooting Mansfield neighbors shocked by violence

Brockton man killed in double shooting

Mansfield neighbors shocked by violence

GRIEF-STRICKEN: Chimora Miranda, 21, with 8-month-old daughter Alayna Alima Cardoso, mourns her boyfriend’s death yesterday. Aderito Cardoso died Saturday morning after being shot.
By Herald staff  |   Sunday, January 16, 2011  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Local Coverage
Photo by Faith Ninivaggi

Tears flowed through a Brockton home last night as dozens of people gathered to remember a 22-year-old dad gunned down only hours earlier inside a Mansfield apartment building.

“They took my baby away,” said Chimora Miranda, 21, who has an 8-month-old daughter with murder victim Aderito Cardoso. “They took my best friend.”

Family, friends and people from Brockton’s Cape Verdean community flooded Cardoso’s Winthrop Street home and openly grieved.

Authorities said Cardoso, a 2007 Brockton High School graduate, was shot inside the first-floor hallway of an apartment building at the Villages of Mansfield Depot about 3:42 a.m. yesterday. He was taken by helicopter to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center but was pronounced dead upon arrival.

Another man, only identified as in his 20s, was also shot but has survived with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. No arrests have been made.

Miranda of Taunton said she last heard from Cardoso Friday night when he told her he was going with a friend to Karma nightclub in Providence.

“He kissed my baby good night, but I didn’t know he’d see her for the last time,” she said.

Miranda said Cardoso’s friend picked up a woman at the nightclub, and the woman invited them back to her Mansfield home to hang out. Police have not told the family what transpired next, she said.

Josephine DeRosa has lived next door to apartment No. 2904 — the apartment where the woman from the club allegedly lived — for 16 years. She was not home at the time of the shooting, which occurred about 15 feet outside her door, but she said her son heard people fighting and then several loud bangs.

“I’m very upset,” DeRosa said. “I’m glad I wasn’t there. I would have freaked out.”

The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office and local police have described the incident as isolated and not a random act, but did not return calls for comment.

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