Friends recall Medford shooting victim Man a longtime member of Hub hip-hop scene

Friends recall Medford shooting victim
Man a longtime member of Hub hip-hop scene

By Stewart Bishop
Globe Correspondent / February 21, 2011

As authorities continued to investigate the Friday night shootings in Medford that left one man dead and his father wounded, friends remembered John Hatch as a compassionate family man and longtime member of the Boston hip-hop scene.

Hatch, 36, was fatally shot at his Jerome Street home in West Medford on Friday night in an attack that also wounded his father.

Jessica Venezia Pastore, a spokeswoman for Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr. said yesterday there was an ongoing investigation into the slaying, but declined to say if investigators were pursing a suspect in the case or provide further details about the shootings.

A musician, Hatch was a founding member of the Boston group Mikst Nutz, which came to prominence in the local hip-hop community during the mid 1990s.

Yesterday, Hatch’s friend and fellow Mikst Nutz member, Osamah Orlebar of Roxbury, said he couldn’t imagine why anyone would want to hurt Hatch.

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