On the evening of September 7, 2016, 21-year-old Roland Singleton was standing with friends on a sidewalk on Ripley Road near a playground in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston when a man in a hooded sweatshirt approached and opened fire. Singleton was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting was sudden; witnesses were present but no arrests have been publicly announced.

Family and friends remembered Singleton as a devoted father to a two-year-old daughter and as someone who had lost both parents by age 16. They described him as a good friend not involved in gang activity, and the motive for the killing remains unclear. Boston police listed the death as the city’s 25th homicide that year and launched a homicide investigation that is now cold.

Anyone who knew Roland, was in the Ripley Road area that night, or has information that could help identify the shooter is asked to come forward.