On the afternoon of October 25, 2008, Garivaldis Pena, a 27-year-old Hispanic man, was shot and killed in front of his home at 101 Rossmore Road in Boston’s Parkside neighborhood. The attack happened about 3 p.m. as Pena was putting a car seat into his sister’s vehicle. A hooded gunman approached, fired multiple shots, then walked away and fled in a waiting gray Honda. Pena was pronounced dead at the scene; the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the manner of death a homicide.

The shooting occurred in full view of family and neighbors who were outside; witnesses described chaotic scenes with women and children screaming and a neighbor seeing Pena still breathing but ashen-faced. Reports note Pena had a prior conviction in 2005 for pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a 2003 Jamaica Plain murder and had assisted in an attempt to dispose of the victim’s body. Neighbors recalled occasional suspicious behavior, such as getting into passing cars for short rides.

Police and residents speculated the killing was a targeted assassination potentially tied to criminal activity around Egleston and Hyde Squares and possibly connected to another shooting earlier that year. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests announced; the case remains an unsolved homicide. Know anything that could help investigators or that might explain why Pena was targeted?