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Did gentrification cause the murder of a South Boston grandmother during a home invasion this week? "Breaking and entering, back in the day when folks still believed Whitey was Robin Hood, was seen as a lowlife act. But rifling through a $485,000 condo to grab a yuppie’s big screen TV, iPhone or laptop is now seen by those wasted local legions as a demented gesture of defiance." [Herald]