On the evening of November 5, 2014, 17-year-old Ryan Duce Morrissey of Charlestown, Massachusetts, was shot; he died of his injuries on November 9, 2014. A senior at St. Clement’s High School, he served as a junior counselor at the Charlestown Boys & Girls Club and played youth hockey. A friend, James Lawton, was seriously injured in the same shooting.

Three men—Julio Baez, Danilo Soto, and Alexander Soto—were arrested in connection with the attack. Prosecutors alleged the Sotos carried out the shooting while Baez drove the getaway car. In February 2018 a Suffolk Superior Court jury acquitted Danilo and Alexander Soto; Julio Baez was convicted of first-degree murder and armed assault with intent to murder and sentenced to life without parole. The judge described the shooting as execution style and said Ryan and his friend were believed not to have been the intended targets.

In July 2024 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered Julio Baez’s conviction reversed, ruling prosecutors had not shown he knew the men he was driving intended to commit murder; the court directed that a finding of not guilty be entered. Does anyone from Charlestown remember Ryan, his work with youth programs, or have information about the night of November 5, 2014?