Do you know who murdered Jason?
Jason Castillo, 28, a Hispanic/Latino male, was discovered on the morning of July 20, 2015, inside an apartment at 50 Brookway Road in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood. Officers responding to a call about a possible death found him suffering from apparent gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide, marking another life cut short in a quiet residential complex that Monday.
In the days that followed, police publicly identified him and appealed for information as homicide detectives began piecing together the final hours that led to violence behind a closed door. The address—listed on the department’s roster of unsolved 2015 homicides as Unit #523—became a waypoint in an investigation that, despite interviews and tips, yielded no arrests. Authorities stated no suspects had been identified, and the case remains open, with appeals to the public for any detail that might turn silence into leads.
Beyond the crime-scene tape and case numbers, notices from his funeral home sketched the outline of a life anchored in family and Dominican roots: a husband and father whose sudden death stirred mourners across Roslindale and Jamaica Plain. Those personal traces—names read aloud at visiting hours and a funeral mass—stand in counterpoint to the thin official lines of an unsolved case, underscoring what was lost and what has yet to be answered.
