Darius Jones, 23, of Dorchester, was killed on the afternoon of January 16, 2008, after attending the funeral of 18-year-old Darrion Carrington at St. Michael’s Cemetery. Jones was a passenger in a rented car with three others when the vehicle was followed and ambushed at the intersection of Poplar Street and Metropolitan Avenue in Roslindale. The car was sprayed with gunfire; Jones died, a second passenger was critically wounded in the chest, a third suffered a leg wound, and the driver fled the scene to summon help from police on Beech Street.

Police said the attack appeared connected to an ongoing feud between the Franklin Hill and Franklin Field gangs and linked Jones’s killing to Carrington’s earlier murder. Investigators asked for witnesses, including passengers on a #50 MBTA bus that passed the intersection, but no arrests or suspects were ever publicly announced and the case is now listed among Boston’s unsolved 2008 homicides.

Did anyone on or near Poplar Street and Metropolitan Avenue that afternoon see anything that could help resolve this case?