Fifteen-year-old Germaine Rucker was riding a bicycle in Dorchester on the evening of August 10, 2003, carrying a knapsack of necklaces he was selling when a group of youths from the Dudley Street neighborhood confronted him on Wendover Street. They knocked him down and began to beat him; one took the knapsack and ran off. As Germaine lay on the ground, sixteen-year-old Kentel Weaver shot him twice, once in the back and once in the head, and fled down Humphrey Street.

A witness reported the shooter stumbling and dropping a gun and a distinctive Detroit Tigers baseball hat; the shooter retrieved the gun but left the hat behind. Police linked the hat and the dropped gun to Weaver, and after questioning at his home and an emotional exchange with his mother, Weaver reportedly told officers I shot Germaine Rucker before his Miranda rights were finished being read. A Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted eighteen-year-old Kentel Weaver of first-degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm in April 2006, and he received the mandatory life-without-parole term then in effect.

Does anyone remember Germaine or have information about that night in Dorchester?