Derek Pires, 29, was fatally shot while sitting in his car on the night of March 13, 2023. Police were notified at about 10:52 p.m. and found Pires alone in the driver’s seat of a black Dodge Charger parked on Dunbar Street at the intersection with Dartmouth Street. He was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital but was pronounced dead the next morning, March 14, 2023, at 1:30 a.m.

New Bedford police, State Police detectives, and the Bristol County District Attorney’s homicide unit opened an investigation. In July 2023 a grand jury indicted 28-year-old Gianni Carter-Joyner on charges including murder, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful transportation of a firearm into the Commonwealth, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and two counts of carrying an illegal firearm as a subsequent offense. Carter-Joyner was already in custody on unrelated firearms and drug distribution charges at the time of the indictment and prosecution was assigned to an assistant district attorney who had presented the case to the grand jury.

Did anyone in the area on Dunbar or Dartmouth streets that night see or hear anything that could help?