Summary: Who Killed The Colonists

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Based on the evidence, I believe that the British soldiers murdered the colonists. Many of the colonists did not know what was going on, nor did they want it to happen. While at the crime scene, we noticed 5 men were killed. The fight broke out in front of the Common House, a big building in Boston. While at the Common House, Captain Preston told the soldiers to load their guns and begin to fire. As a result the colonists began putting rocks inside of snowballs and began launching them at the soldiers. Colonists also threw sticks to try and injure the soldiers, After all the fighting had stopped, we went back and visited the crime scene. Many of the colonists were the ones that died, the people who died were Samuel Gray, Patrick Carr, Crispus

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