A targeted shooting on the night of July 22, 2024, left 49-year-old Paul Nolan dead from multiple gunshot wounds in a third-floor apartment on Dartmouth Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. Neighbors first heard loud noises around 10:27 p.m.; some initially thought it was furniture or something heavy being dropped before realizing the sounds were gunshots. Nolan was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and pronounced dead.

Somerville Police, Middlesex District Attorney’s Office investigators and Massachusetts State Police detectives opened a homicide investigation. Authorities have said they believe the attack was targeted and that there is no ongoing threat to the public. No arrests or public identifications of suspects have been made; investigators reported a black BMW with New York plates was seen driving up Evergreen Avenue shortly after the shooting. Nolan’s obituary and family remember him as someone who had been trying to turn his life around after a recent prison release and who had coached youth baseball and football in Somerville.

If anyone saw the black BMW or has information about Paul Nolan’s death, please share what is known with investigators.