Jashun Cooley, a 38-year-old Black man from Roxbury, Massachusetts, was shot and killed on the evening of Saturday, August 24, 2024, just before 10 p.m. The shooting happened in Dorchester at the intersection of Washington and Morse streets. Officers from District C-11 found Mr. Cooley with gunshot wounds; he was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and was later pronounced dead.

The homicide was one of several violent incidents along the Washington Street corridor in late August that raised community concern. The Boston Police Department identified a suspect and, on the evening of September 5, 2024, officers from the Boston Police Fugitive Unit, Massachusetts State Police, Brockton Police, and the U.S. Marshals Service located and arrested 28-year-old Joseph Ruggs in Brockton. He was charged with murder, unlawful possession of ammunition without an FID card, carrying a firearm without a license, and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building.

On September 6, 2024, Ruggs was arraigned in Dorchester District Court, where a not guilty plea was entered on his behalf and a judge ordered him held without bail pending trial. His next court date was set for October 4 for a probable cause hearing. Does anyone have information about Mr. Cooley, his movements that evening, or the Washington Street corridor incidents that week?