Curtis Boston Jr., 25, was fatally shot and kidnapped in Cincinnati on December 8, 2016, after going to a Family Dollar parking lot on Burlington Avenue for a meeting. Multiple individuals approached and opened fire, wounding Boston and two bystanders. Boston tried to flee on foot but was wounded, forced into a waiting vehicle, and taken away.

On the night of December 9, 2016, at about 9:24 p.m., Cincinnati firefighters extinguished a fire in a rear parking lot on Central Avenue and found Boston’s burned body. Investigators say the killing was targeted and possibly part of a murder-for-hire plot. Prosecutors later alleged that William McGivens and another suspect, Quincy Ray, lured Boston, shot him, struck him with a car when he tried to escape, transported him elsewhere, fatally shot him and set his body on fire. McGivens was arrested in March 2023; Quincy Ray is still at large.

Anyone with information about Boston’s movements that night or who saw suspicious activity near the Burlington Avenue or Central Avenue locations is asked to come forward.