Do you know who murdered Ashley? Ashley Williams Costly, 22, male, was shot on the night of July 25, 2012, outside 67 Dakota Street in Dorchester and later pronounced dead at Boston Medical Center. Police responding to the scene found him suffering from multiple gunshot wounds shortly before midnight. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the death a homicide.
In the days that followed, authorities released his name and confirmed the location as Dakota Street, but no immediate motive was made public.
An obituary published the following week identified him as Ashley William Costly and listed surviving family members, underscoring the personal loss behind the brief police updates.
Years later, the case remains listed by Boston Police among the city's unsolved homicides from 2012. Public records and contemporaneous reports indicate no arrests and no publicly identified suspects in connection with the shooting, and investigators have continued to seek information from anyone who might help close the case.
