On a cold December evening in 2017, 17-year-old Phillip Demings of Weymouth was found suffering from gunshot wounds near 344 Bowdoin Street in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at the scene on December 19, 2017. Boston police described the shooting as not random and released a photo of a man in a blue-hooded jacket who was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting.

The investigation identified two suspects who are brothers. On January 2, 2018, police arrested 20-year-old Jaquan X. Shepard of Lynn on a murder charge related to Demings’ death. On January 8, 2018, 18-year-old Jawone Shepard of Roxbury was arrested on a warrant for murder and firearm charges. Both were to be arraigned in Dorchester District Court on charges alleging roles in the teenager’s death.

If anyone witnessed the shooting near 344 Bowdoin Street on December 19, 2017, or has information about the men pictured by police, please come forward.