Dracut Mom Outraged After Yearbook Supports Her Son's Killer

DRACUT, MA — After losing her son to a shooting, a Dracut mom is fighting to have words of support for his shooter removed from the high school's yearbooks.

According to an article first reported by the Lowell Sun, the 2021 Dracut High School yearbook shows two students posted, "Free Mello" referencing 18-year-old Christian "C-Mello" Lemay, who was charged in Kimborowicz's shooting.

The Sun reports that Kimborowicz told police that “C-Mello” was one of the people who shot him, before he was placed on a ventilator.

Kimborowicz spent the next month unconscious on a ventilator at Tufts Medical Center in Boston before he succumbed to his injuries and died on October 28 last year.

His mother, Heidi Kimborowicz is demanding that the year books be re-printed.

In response to her, the Sun reported that the Superintendent of Schools Steven Stone announced that administrators will send out “sticker overlays” to everyone who purchased a book.

“It’s awful,” said Kimborowicz in an interview from the Sun. “I don’t think any mother would be okay looking at something that is saying, 'Free somebody who killed their child.' … There’s a lot of people who are supposed to edit the yearbook and look at the quotes and look at what people are writing before it’s allowed to go through.”

According to the Sun, Kimborowicz said she has heard from administrators, but was not happy with the response to placing stickers over the words and wants both a public apology and for at least some of the yearbooks to be reprinted.

Lowell Police say Lemay is out on $7,500 cash bail and is on house arrest while he is due back in court on July 16 for a probable cause hearing.

For more on this story, read the Lowell Sun.