Do you know who murdered Curtis? In the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, a 21-year-old African-American man named Curtis Jarvis was shot and killed on September 15, 2010. The incident occurred at 27 Cameron Street, where police responded to a report of a person shot. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later determined that Jarvis's death was a homicide.
At the time, the community was experiencing a significant level of gun violence, and the death of Curtis Jarvis was one of many homicides in Dorchester and
Mattapan that year. Despite the ongoing investigation by the Boston Police Department, his case is listed among the unsolved homicides for 2010. No immediate arrests were made, and specific suspects in his shooting were not publicly identified.
Years later, in April 2022, a significant federal indictment was unsealed, charging 19 alleged members of the Dorchester-based Cameron Street gang with a range of violent crimes under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The indictment included charges for offenses dating back to 2010, encompassing one murder, numerous attempted murders, and armed robberies in the Bowdoin-Geneva area, where the gang was known to operate. While the official documents do not explicitly name Curtis Jarvis as the murder victim connected to the indictment, the timeframe and location of the murder included in the charges overlap with the circumstances of his unsolved case. The round-up of the alleged gang members was the result of a coordinated effort by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Boston Police Department to address the long-standing violence in the neighborhood.
