[5][6] The session had been arranged by Mayor Reeves after students had been quoted in local newspapers dismissing Raustein as just another rich guy from MIT, who was no more special than other people who get randomly murdered in the city.
[5] Despite these various comments, a vigil and peace rally held on the MIT campus, on 22 October 1992, drew representatives from both communities, including students from Rindge and Latin.
[8] In 2004, Raustein was an inaugural member of the Garden of Peace memorial near the Massachusetts State House in Boston, with his name engraved on a stone in the riverbed feature (section B).
[10] In 2009, then 33-year-old Donovan unsuccessfully appealed against his sentence of life without parole for felony murder, in which he argued that, although he punched Raustein, he had no knowledge of a knife or planned robbery.
[12] In August 2014, the Massachusetts Parole Board decided then 38-year-old Donovan should be released after an additional six months in a rehabilitative program and one year in a lower level security prison.