On Saturday afternoon, March 4, 2023, 56-year-old Jose Despeignes, a Black/African American man from Hyde Park, was shot and killed inside a third-floor apartment at 109 Weaver Way in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood. Police responded at about 3:31 p.m. and found Despeignes with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to a witness at the residence, two men had entered earlier that afternoon. The witness recognized one man by the name 2G, who asked for marijuana and to take a shower. Despeignes came down from an upper floor and handed 2G a blunt. The witness went upstairs to clean; while upstairs they heard a pop and then found Despeignes lying on the bedroom floor. The witness confronted 2G, who allegedly admitted the shooting and said he had seen Despeignes leaving his girlfriend’s house the night before. Video evidence taken outside the residence helped identify 2G as 36-year-old Austin Dillon of Dorchester.

Dillon was arrested on the evening of March 6 and charged with murder and illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, third offense; he was arraigned in Roxbury Municipal Court and ordered held without bail. Authorities are still seeking the second man who accompanied Dillon that afternoon.

Did anyone who knew Jose or who was in the area that day see or hear anything that could help identify the second man?