On the evening of September 29, 1993, 23-year-old Tracy Brown, a Black/African American woman, was found shot to death in her Mattapan, Boston apartment alongside her 17-year-old cousin, Celine Kirk, who also died of a gunshot wound to the head. The scene was discovered after Tracy’s two-year-old son answered the door for police and told them that Mommy was on the floor. Officers had been sent after a telephone company supervisor reported a call for help from the child.

Investigators looked into several people connected to the apartment. Sean Ellis, a cousin who had recently moved in, gave an alibi and suggested Celine’s ex-boyfriend, Craig Hood, as a suspect. Hood was arrested on outstanding warrants on October 2, 1993, and the next day gave an audiotaped confession to the Boston Police admitting he went to the apartment to argue with Kirk, shot her during the confrontation, then shot Tracy — whom he said he had never met before — out of fear of going to prison, and shot Celine a second time.

In June 1995 Hood pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and received two consecutive life sentences. Does anyone have memories of Tracy or Celine, or information about the Mattapan neighborhood in 1993 that could add context to these events?