Kembery was in the prime of her life. She was working two jobs to make ends meet, and she was a loving mother. This was a tragic, senseless act of violence that is fortunately extremely rare in our city. These arrests represent an important step toward justice for Kembery and her family.
Preliminary analysis of the device by the Police Department's bomb squad found that it was "not a hoax device or a smoke bomb," but "an improvised explosive device that could have caused serious injury or death," Tisch wrote on social media.