On Saturday afternoon, November 12, 2016, 28-year-old Dantley Tookie Leonard was helping a friend move furniture in the Franklin Field housing complex on Ames Street in Dorchester when a man exited a vehicle and opened fire with a .40 caliber pistol. Leonard was struck 11 times and died; a second man with him was shot three times and survived. The shooter fled the scene. Leonard was from Kingston, had previously lived in Dorchester, and left behind a young son and a twin brother.

Investigators focused on Julian Troche. Four days after the shooting police stopped a car Troche was in and tested a sweatshirt he was wearing for gunshot primer residue. Cell phone location data and traffic camera footage placed Troche in the area at the time of the shooting, and ballistic testing linked shell casings from Leonard’s murder to casings from an earlier exchange of gunfire in which Troche’s friend had been killed and Troche was wounded. Prosecutors said the killing was misguided revenge, with Troche allegedly believing Leonard was responsible for his friend’s death. Troche was indicted, convicted by a jury in August 2019 and sentenced to life in prison; the conviction was later overturned and a new trial ordered.

Did anyone in Dorchester at the time see a vehicle or person acting suspiciously near Franklin Field that afternoon?