On the night of July 20, 1991, 17-year-old Patricia A. Moreno, known as Tricia, was found on the third-floor fire escape of her foster family’s Henry Street apartment in Malden with a single gunshot wound to the head. She was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital and died later that day from an irreversible brain injury. At the time, several people were in the apartment, including her foster mother, two foster sisters, and Rodney Daniels, a sister’s boyfriend.

Occupants reported hearing two gunshots but said they had no information on who fired them. An autopsy identified a .38-caliber projectile as the fatal round; no gun or shell casings were recovered at the scene. The investigation went cold for lack of evidence, but later re-examination and witness re-interviews produced new leads pointing toward the apartment doorway as the likely location the shot came from.

If anyone knew Patricia or has information about that night on Henry Street, please share what you remember.