Joshua Hines was 23 when he was shot in Dorchester on June 16, 2019. Boston Police answered a shots-fired call about 1:15 a.m. near 6 Michigan Avenue and found Hines suffering from an apparent gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death a homicide.

Joshua was a Black man from Mattapan and the son of the late Kimbaley Thompson. Family and friends held a visitation and Celebration of Life Service at United Baptist Church in Jamaica Plain on June 24, 2019. The Boston Police Homicide Unit asked the public for help and provided contact information and an anonymous tip line, and the case is listed among Boston’s unsolved homicides for 2019.

If anyone has information about Joshua’s death or remembered seeing anything that night near Michigan Avenue, please contact the Boston Police Homicide Unit or the anonymous tip line.