On the evening of January 9, 2017, 19-year-old Khisean Desvarieux, a Black/Hispanic man and a new father, was shot twice in the stomach on Dearborn Street near the Orchard Gardens Community Center Boys and Girls Club in Roxbury. The shooting occurred about 7:27 p.m.; witnesses heard gunfire that they later described as sounding like the Fourth of July. Wounded, Desvarieux made it inside the community center before collapsing and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died of his injuries.

In the immediate aftermath witnesses could not describe a suspect. Police later arrested 17-year-old Tykorie Evelyn after attempting to speak with him a short distance from the scene; officers say he fled and discarded a firearm before being taken into custody. A Suffolk County grand jury indicted Evelyn on first-degree murder and illegal gun possession charges in March 2017, to be tried as an adult. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled in September 2020 that evidence about his flight and the recovered gun would be admissible, and Evelyn has denied the killing and filed a lawsuit alleging racial profiling by the police.

Did anyone in the Orchard Gardens area witness the shooting or see activity on Dearborn Street that evening?