On the early morning of Easter Sunday, April 12, 2009, 18-year-old Mario Oviedo of Mattapan was shot at an after-hours party at 151 Homestead Street in Roxbury. Police arrived about 2:30 a.m. after a report of a person shot and found Oviedo with gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide by gunshot.

Boston Police launched a homicide investigation and interviewed several people who had been at the party, but no arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified or charged. The case remains open and is listed among the city’s unsolved homicides of 2009.

If anyone was at that gathering or has information about events at 151 Homestead Street that night, please contact investigators to help bring answers to Mario’s family.