Benine Timothee was 36 when she was killed on the afternoon of Saturday, October 29, 2016, in Dorchester. She had arrived in the United States from Haiti three months earlier with two of her children to join her husband and was walking to an English class on Washington Street. Around 2:30 p.m., gunfire erupted near 152 Washington Street. A 15-year-old boy was hit and survived with non-life-threatening injuries; Benine was struck in the chest, taken to a nearby hospital, and died of her wounds.

Benine’s family had survived Haiti’s 2010 earthquake and had hoped for a safer future in Boston. A GoFundMe was set up to help her husband with funeral expenses. The murder investigation is ongoing; appeals for information have been made and no arrests or public identifications of suspects have been announced.

If anyone was in the Washington Street area that afternoon or has information about the shooting, please share what you know.