On the evening of July 4, 2018, 36-year-old Deondra Lee was shot on a residential street in Dorchester while watching fireworks with his pregnant wife. The couple had been at a neighbor’s cookout and walked toward the display near Dacia and Brookford streets shortly before 10 p.m. A car drove up behind them and a passenger opened fire at close range. Lee was struck multiple times, taken to Boston Medical Center, and later died; his wife was not physically harmed.

Boston police identified the driver as 32-year-old Michael Carleton of Mattapan and the shooter as 27-year-old Travis Phillips of Dorchester. Surveillance footage tracked the vehicle and fingerprints on an abandoned getaway car were matched to Carleton. Prosecutors said there appeared to be no known motive and the attackers did not seem to know Lee.

Lee left behind his wife and four children, including twins born a week after his death. Does anyone have information about that night or knew Deondra and his family?