Christian Berryman, 19, was shot shortly after 12:40 a.m. on October 4, 2022, outside 38 Westville Street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found him wounded; he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The scene is near UP Academy Dorchester.

Police publicly identified Berryman of Dorchester and classified his death as a homicide. Investigators canvassed the area, and in the days that followed authorities urged anyone with information to contact the Boston Police Homicide Unit. No arrests had been announced and no suspects were publicly named, and the case was listed among Boston’s unsolved homicides for 2022.

Berryman had graduated from Fenway High School earlier that year, a brief sketch of a life interrupted. If anyone saw or heard anything around Westville Street the night of October 4, 2022, contact the Boston Police Homicide Unit with tips.