Allex Bryant, a 28-year-old Black man from Boston, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of March 21, 2016. The shooting occurred around 3:00 a.m. on Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury after Bryant left a birthday party. He was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car when a single, fatal gunshot wound struck his torso; another man in the car was wounded but survived. The vehicle was left riddled with bullets and the fatal firearm was recovered on the sidewalk next to the car.

Investigators identified three suspects: brothers Dartanyan Pledger and Niccokowan Pledger-Grant, and Niccokowan’s girlfriend, Lisa Lewis. Cell phone records placed the two brothers and Lewis in the vicinity at the time of the shooting and showed a 19-minute call between the brothers that ended one minute before a ShotSpotter activation. Security footage recorded Dartanyan running to a Nissan Maxima driven by Lewis while Niccokowan was seen tossing a Sig Sauer .45 into a Toyota Camry registered to Dartanyan; that Camry was found at the scene with ballistic damage and contained a firearm, Dartanyan’s wallet and his cell phone.

Arrests followed: Dartanyan was taken into custody in August 2016 in Atlanta and Niccokowan and Lewis were arrested in September 2016 in Central Falls, Rhode Island. The case raises questions about who fired the fatal shot and why the party became deadly; anyone with information about that night or who knew Allex Bryant is asked to come forward.