Obama Meets Sean Collier's Family During Boston Visit

President Barack Obama met with the family of slain MIT Police Officer Sean Collier in Roxbury Wednesday while attending a campaign event for U.S. Senate candidate Ed Markey.

That's according to a White House official who spoke to the press pool covering the event.

Authorities say Collier, a Somerville resident who was about to become a Somerville police officer, was killed by suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Obama made the trip to Boston Wednesday to stump for Markey in the special election to fill the seat formerly held by Secretary of State John Kerry.

According to White House press pool reports, Obama appeared at the Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center and attempted to get a crowd of Markey supporters fired up and ready to go.

Obama said "too many folks in Washington who are putting the next election ahead of the next generation" but that Markey, a Malden Democratic congressman since 1976, would be part of the process to change that.

"I need folks in the Unites States Senate who wake up every day thinking about the folks who sent them there ... I need Ed Markey in the United States Senate," Obama said, according to pool reports.

Several other dignitaries spoke before Obama, with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino telling the crowd Markey was the right man for the job.

"Boston, Massachusetts, always makes the right choice," Menino said, according to pool reports. "We made the right choice with (U.S. Senator) Elizabeth Warren. We made the right choice with (Governor) Deval Patrick. We made the right choice with Barack Obama. Now it's the right choice to elect Ed Markey."

Before arriving in Roxbury, Obama visited a restaurant in the South End.

Markey is set to face off with Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez, a Cohasset businessman, in the election June 25.

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