Rebecca Payne dead

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• Date: May 21,2008

The 22-year-old Northeastern University student found shot to death in her Mission Hill apartment yesterday was remembered as a curious learner with a passion for athletics by her distraught friends and peers.

“It’s a huge shock for everyone,” said Tara Turner, 20, a student at Northeastern who grew up with the victim, Rebecca Payne, in New Milford, Conn. “Growing up, she was always someone to look up to.”

Investigators discovered Paynes’ body in her Parker Hill Avenue apartment yesterday shortly before 7 a.m. A building manager called 911 after finding her apartment door slightly ajar and noticing blood inside, a law enforcement source said.

Payne, 22, was found dead in her apartment on Parker Hill Avenue in the Mission Hill neighborhood. She was shot twice in the legs and once in the chest. The crime rattled the quiet neighborhood near the school’s campus.

Aoun said that Payne was excited about her co-op jobs — which are an integral part of a Northeastern education. She was also president of the Athletic Training Club, served on the Dean’s Council, was involved with the Lutheran Episcopal Campus Ministry and other spiritual initiatives on campus, and enjoyed working with children at a summer camp, he said.

City Councilor Michael Ross insisted Mission Hill is an “extremely safe community.”

“It’s very unusual for this area,” Deputy Superintendent Thomas Lee said. “This is a very safe neighborhood”.

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