[...] when a stray bullet killed 10-year-old Trina Persad in Dorchester in 2002, Mr. Tye quietly stepped in to pay for her funeral. Thanks to his generosity, in 2003 a young man from Ecuador who sustained a gunshot wound to his face received treatment here at Mass Eye and Ear to restore his ability to eat, drink, and speak. [...] Mr. Tye enabled more than 25 patients to receive advanced treatment that they would not have been able to obtain elsewhere.