Elijah Ricardo Clunie, 20, was killed while getting a haircut at the Exclusive Barbershop and Salon on Washington Street in Dorchester on September 2, 2024. Just before 1 p.m., a man who had earlier asked about wait time returned, walked to where Clunie was seated, placed a revolver to his head and fired a single fatal shot. The shooter then fired multiple times at another man in the shop; both victims were taken to hospitals, the second expected to survive, while Clunie was pronounced dead.

Boston Police Homicide investigators treated the attack as not random and identified 32-year-old Diamond Jose Brito of Canton as the suspect. Brito was arrested on October 10, 2024, by members of the Boston Police Fugitive Unit with Massachusetts State Police and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, and was arraigned in Dorchester District Court on a murder charge and held without bail. The barbershop’s surveillance video reportedly captured the incident.