On a summer evening in 2004 in Roxbury, Boston, 19-year-old Cassim Weaver was shot and killed after a confrontation in a parking lot. Earlier that night a man named Rakeem Young had been assaulted and treated for facial injuries at Boston Medical Center and later set out to find those he believed responsible. Weaver was a passenger in a car driven by his friend Darrell Williams; three young women were in the back seat. The group stopped at a Chinese restaurant and then went to a nearby parking lot where Young, who had arrived in a separate vehicle driven by his brother, approached the car and asked which of them had jumped him before opening fire into the vehicle. Williams was wounded; Weaver was fatally shot.

Police identified Young as the primary suspect and he was indicted in September 2004 on charges including murder, armed assault with intent to murder, and unlawful possession of a firearm. A jury later convicted Young of second degree murder for Weaver’s death and of the related charges. If anyone knew Cassim Weaver or was present that night, please share what can help clarify what happened.