Samuel Pineda-Albizures, 38, was shot in the early minutes of October 20, 2017, on Geneva Avenue near Westville Street in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Officers from District C-11 responded shortly after midnight to reports of gunfire at 417 Geneva Avenue and found a man in his late thirties on the sidewalk with an apparent gunshot wound; he was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead. Reports at the time placed the shooting around 12:22 a.m., with witnesses noting multiple shots in the quiet hours before dawn.

The Boston Police Department later listed the death as a homicide and included the case among its 2017 unsolved killings. No arrests were announced and authorities sought information from the public about the shooter or shooters. The location—Geneva Avenue at Westville Street—remains the focal point of the unanswered questions in this case.

Did anyone in Dorchester see or hear anything around Geneva Avenue near Westville Street just after midnight on October 20, 2017?