BOSTON — Martin Richard and Krystle Campbell, two of three people killed Monday at the Boston Marathon, shared something in common with most of those injured by the blasts. They were there to watch others. They were not supposed to be the subjects of a newspaper story.
Ms. Campbell, 29, who went almost every year to watch the runners cross the finish line, was standing with a friend. Martin, 8, was standing with his family.
On the campus of Boston University, administrators said Tuesday afternoon that the third person killed was a graduate student. The Chinese Consulate in New York said that the victim was a Chinese citizen but that it was not disclosing her name at the request of her family. The university said she was watching the race close to the finish line with two friends, one of whom was in stable condition at Boston Medical Center.
On Tuesday, mourners dropped flowers on the front steps of the gray two-story Victorian home where Martin lived with his family in the Dorchester section of Boston.
Martin's mother, Denise, and sister, Jane, 6, were badly injured by the blast. His older brother Henry, 12, and his father, Bill, also survived the explosions, said a spokesman for the family.
It was a shockingly sad turn for a family that was well-liked and active in the community — one that ate four-cheese pizza and meatballs several nights a week at a local Italian restaurant. They attended St. Ann Parish Neponset, a Roman Catholic church. Bill Richard was president of the board of St. Mark's Area Main Street, a community revitalization organization.
The operator of a clock at the center of the neighborhood froze the hands at 2:50 on Tuesday, the time of the first blast.
"Bad things happen, I understand that," said Suzanne Morrison, a close friend of the family. "But why three times over that family endured what they endured yesterday, that's something I'll never be able to process."
Martin was kindhearted and had an "infectious smile," Ms. Morrison said. She said he had spent a school year in the same class as one of her daughters.
"He was the one boy that all the girls had a crush on," Ms. Morrison said. "He didn't shun the girls. He would play with them. He was just a great, great kid."
Mr. Richard released a statement, thanking "our family and friends, those we know and those we have never met, for their thoughts and prayers. I ask that you continue to pray for my family as we remember Martin."
Martin was a third grader at Neighborhood House Charter School. He was frequently in front of his house playing sports with his brother and sister, whom a neighbor described as a tomboy. A red bicycle helmet sat on the front lawn on Tuesday and there was a basketball hoop and hockey goal in the driveway.
"Very active, very normal American kids," said a neighbor, Jane Sherman, 64, describing the Richard children.
Martin would always tell her hi, Ms. Sherman said, but he was afraid of her Rottweiler, Audra Rose.
About 10:30 on Monday night, Ms. Sherman said, she saw Mr. Richard walking into his house, looking "white as a sheet." She asked him what was wrong but he did not answer. She then went to his house and asked a family friend who was at the Richard home what had happened.
"He said, 'Martin is dead.' "
Ms. Campbell's family initially was told that she was merely injured, according to her grandmother Lillian Campbell. Her identity was confused with that of a friend who had been standing with her. Ms. Campbell's parents learned their daughter had died only when they entered the other woman's hospital room, Lillian Campbell said.
"We're heartbroken at the death of our daughter," her mother, Patty Campbell, who could barely be understood through her tears, said in a statement she read on the porch of the family's Medford home on Tuesday afternoon. "She was a wonderful person. She was sweet and kind and friendly and she was always smiling."
Ms. Campbell worked long days and nights as a restaurant manager, most recently for Jimmy's Steer House in Arlington, but friends said she never lost her sense of humor.
"She made everyone feel special, and in her line of work, it's really hard," said Laurie Jackson Cormier, who ran a park where Ms. Campbell managed a restaurant for a number of years. "They work so damn hard, and you don't often come across everyone who has that attitude."
Ms. Campbell grew up in Medford, graduating from the local public high school in 2001. She started working as a waitress in high school, and worked her way up to a job as the manager of Hingham branch of the Summer Shack, a popular chain of Boston seafood restaurants.
At the end of the summer season at the Summer Shack in 2009, she organized a hot dog eating contest to rid the restaurant of hundreds of unsold sausages.
"I figured it's the last weekend of the season, so why not have some people come out and stuff their face?" she told The Boston Globe.
Ms. Campbell lived with her grandmother for almost two years, caring for her after a medical procedure, before moving recently to Arlington and taking a new restaurant job on the other side of the surf and turf divide.
Lillian Campbell said her granddaughter called several times a week and came to see her most weeks. They had a cup of tea and "lots of laughs about foolish things."
"Every time she comes in the house to see anybody it's a hug and a kiss, and that's how she left," Lillian Campbell said.
" 'Love you, Nana,' that's what she said."
Cate Seely, a friend of Ms. Campbell's, ran the marathon on Monday. On Tuesday, wearing her marathon jacket, she walked up to the Campbell family home with the red rose she received after finishing the race and left it on the front steps.
Kitty Bennett and Michael Roston contributed research.
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