On December 29, 2008, 17-year-old Jermaine Perry was found with multiple gunshot wounds outside 7 Hosmer Street in Mattapan, Boston. Officers responding to a call just before 1 p.m. discovered him; he was taken to Boston Medical Center and pronounced dead. The Boston Police Department opened a homicide investigation and in the days after the shooting identified Perry as the victim and asked the community for information.

The killing was recorded among the city’s homicides for 2008. Perry’s family has continued to feel the impact of the loss; his older brother Jerome Tevares said Perry had no connections to criminal groups and criticized aspects of how media portrayed him.

If anyone has information about what happened at 7 Hosmer Street that afternoon, please come forward to assist the investigation.