Local News Mother of three was killed on the verge of earning nursing degree, family says Shantel Gillespie, whose body was found in a South End luxury apartment building last week, was murdered ...

Shantel Gillespie was a mother of three young children, shared her kindness with patients at Boston’s Children Hospital, and had just earned a nursing degree.

A man is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of 30-year-old Shantel Gillespie, a Boston mother of three found dead in a luxury apartment complex in the South End in December.