Erick Pierre-Louis, 28, male, was killed during a burst of midday violence on June 15, 2013, in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood. Around 12:45 p.m., witnesses saw occupants in two vehicles trading gunfire along Wellington Hill Street. In the chaos, the car Pierre-Louis was driving slammed into a parked vehicle near 88 Wellington Hill Street. Responding officers found him suffering from gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Boston Police Department later recorded his death as a homicide linked to a shooting at 82 Wellington Hill Street, a short distance away on the same block.
Investigators quickly focused on the second vehicle involved. Early bulletins and neighborhood reports described it as a small, light green SUV, and one alert singled out a light green Toyota RAV4. A partial Massachusetts license plate beginning with the digits 875 was circulated as detectives canvassed for leads. Despite the daylight hour and a flurry of witness accounts, no arrests were announced, and the case entered the city’s roster of unsolved homicides.
In the months that followed, authorities reiterated appeals for information while confirming that the investigation remained open. Public summaries and later reviews of the year’s violence continued to note the car-to-car shootout, the crash, and the absence of any suspect taken into custody. Years on, the official listing of 2013 unsolved cases still bears Pierre-Louis’s name, a stark reminder of a deadly confrontation that unfolded in broad daylight and a family left without answers.
