On the morning of December 29, 2015, 18-year-old Joshua Morales, a Hispanic resident of Boston, was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting on Wilmore Street in Mattapan. The attack occurred around 8:45 a.m. and also injured a 19-year-old friend, who survived with non-life-threatening wounds. Both teenagers were taken to a nearby hospital; Morales later died of his injuries.

The shooting shocked the Dorchester community and prompted an investigation by the Boston Police Department. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been reported in connection with Morales’s death. The loss remains a painful, unresolved chapter for his family and neighbors.

If anyone has information about that December morning on Wilmore Street or knew Joshua, please come forward to assist the investigation.