Dorchester’s Henry Richard, shown above, 20, completed his first Boston Marathon on Monday with his parents, Bill and Denise Richard, and his sister Jane greeting him at the finish line. Meb Keflezighi, the 2014 Boston Marathon winner, was also there to give Henry his medal.
It was on Marathon Day nine years ago (April 15, 2013) that bombs placed by terrorists killed three near the finish line – Henry’s brother Martin, age 8; Krystle Campbell, 29, of Medford; and Lingzi Lu, a Chinese student attending Boston University – and injured some 250 others, including Jane Richard, who lost a leg to the bombs.
“It’s great to get here finally,” said Henry, whose time was 4:02:20. “It’s been years in the making for me, so I’m just so happy I could finally be here,” Henry told WBZ-TV. “I know Martin would have been doing it with me — so happy to finish it, that’s all I can think about.” “I did it for both of us, and my sister and the rest of my family.”
