Victim’s mother stirs crowd as Ramon Dingle-Smith receives life sentence

A Dorchester mother, whose son was killed two years ago, embraced the mother of her son’s murderer Ramon Dingle-Smith, at Suffolk Superior Court after he was sentenced to life without parole for the slaying.

The jury had convicted the 21-year-old Dingle-Smith for the March 2012 death of Jason Withers, 25.

In a moment that seemed to slow time and brought many in the courtroom to tears, the women stood hugging with the victim’s mother’s letting go with two words, “I’m sorry.” Read more