On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 8, 2021, Arthur Rashaad Miles, 34, was sitting in his parked car outside his Washington Street apartment in Boston’s Jamaica Plain when a masked assailant approached and fired multiple shots. Miles managed to exit the vehicle and run across the street before collapsing on the sidewalk; he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.
Investigators say the shooter fled on foot, running up School Street and then down Dixwell Street. Authorities identified 32-year-old Saquon Moore as the primary suspect and apprehended him in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on November 17, 2021. Moore was extradited back to Massachusetts to face murder and firearm charges in connection with Miles’s death.
Moore’s record noted a 2003 shooting in Roxbury, when he was 14, that left a teenager paralyzed; he was tried as an adult, convicted and served 14 years in state prison. After release he was later involved in drug dealing in Vermont and received a federal sentence, with release from federal custody in 2020, not long before Miles’s killing.
Did anyone in Jamaica Plain see the shooter or the flight route on September 8, 2021?