This website is a place where we honor and remember Paul.  It is a place where family and friends can see and listen to Paul.  It's a place where you can just visit and reflect about Paul, about the frailty of life or whatever else matters to you.

Paul had an impact on many people during his life and also after his death. His spirit will live with us forever.

We will continue to do everything that Paul expects of us, and we hope you will too.

We'll use this site to tell you about Paul. We'll use it as a place where Edina High School and Somerville High School applicants for the Paul Farris Memorial Scholarship can learn about Paul. We'll use it for our advocacy against unnecessary high speed police pursuits, because if simple judgment had been used on that early morning of May 27, 2007, Paul would still be here with us.

A 2006 graduate of Tufts University who was the lead singer of a popular Boston rock band was killed yesterday after a sport utility vehicle being chased by State Police crashed into the taxi cab in which he and his girlfriend were passengers.

Paul V. Farris, 23, of Medford, who had recently taken his law school entrance exams and was the lead singer of theMark, was pronounced dead at Somerville Hospital soon after the early morning accident, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said.

Farris and his girlfriend were coming home after a night out with friends when the SUV hit the cab, said Cathy Cella, a friend of the Farris family.

Police arrested the driver of the SUV -- Javier Morales, 29, of Somerville -- at the scene and charged him with motor vehicle homicide yesterday.

Farris's girlfriend and the cab driver suffered serious injuries and were being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital last night, according to authorities. On theMark's page on MySpace.com, Farris's girlfriend was identified as Katelyn Hoyt. Fans of the band left messages on the site with prayers and condolences for Farris's family and Hoyt.

An unidentified employee of Metro Cab of Boston acknowledged last night that one of its cabs was in the accident, but declined to identify the driver.

"This is the most senseless thing that has ever happened," said Cella, of Edina, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis, where Farris grew up. Cella described Farris as charismatic and handsome with a great sense of humor.

"My two youngest daughters would fight over who was going to marry him when they got older," Cella said.

Farris, who was a history and political science major at Tufts, was working as a claims adjuster while he decided which law school to attend.

Morales was driving a Mercury Mountaineer in Everett about 1:20 a.m. when a State Police cruiser tried to stop him for motor vehicle violations, according to the Middlesex district attorney's office. Morales refused to stop and led the police on a chase into Somerville, authorities said. Four minutes later, his SUV hit the cab, which was stopped on Highland Road.

Farris's alternative rock band was well known in Boston and played in venues throughout the Northeast, including the Knitting Factory in New York and The Paradise in Boston. Farris graduated from Edina High School in 2002. He has a brother, Scott, who is 19, Cella said.

"He was just one of the best kids, Cella said. "He was one of the kids everyone loved to have underfoot. He was funny, nice, and polite, and greeted everyone's mom with a hug."



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