In the early morning hours of April 28, 2018, 34-year-old Dwayne Keon Thomas of Boston was found on Hartford Street in Dorchester around 2:45 a.m. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, the city’s 16th homicide that year.

Thomas was a father to a son and a daughter and is survived by his parents, Dwayne Gannie Thomas and Alvenia Reeves, plus brothers and a sister. The Boston Police Department opened an investigation into the shooting and within days identified a suspect; on May 4, 2018, police arrested 29-year-old Derrell Russell of Plymouth and charged him with Thomas’s murder.

Anyone who knew Dwayne Thomas or has information about what happened on Hartford Street that night is asked to come forward.