William Moran was 26 years old when he was shot and killed in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood on July 1, 2007. Moran, a Hispanic/Latino male, was the victim of a homicide that unfolded at 50 Archdale Road, an address within the Archdale area of Roslindale. Boston police were called to the location for a report of a person who had been shot. Officers responding to the scene found Moran suffering from gunshot injuries, and he was subsequently pronounced dead.
The Office of the Chief
Medical Examiner determined that Moran’s death was a homicide. Available homicide records identify the cause as gunshot wounds. Beyond those basic circumstances, relatively little information about what immediately preceded the shooting has been made public. Online records do not identify a confrontation, argument, robbery, gang dispute, or other established motive, and they do not indicate whether Moran was specifically targeted or describe how many people may have participated in the killing.
The Boston Police Department continues to include Moran’s death among the city’s unsolved homicides from 2007. No publicly identified suspect is listed in connection with his killing. Historical homicide records likewise leave the suspect field blank and describe the relationship between Moran and his killer as unknown. There is no publicly documented arrest, criminal charge, trial, guilty plea, or conviction connected to Moran’s July 2007 homicide in the available online records.
Some secondary homicide databases give a more general Roslindale location for the case, but the Boston Police Department specifically identifies 50 Archdale Road as the scene where officers responded to the shooting. The official police account also confirms Moran’s age and the date of the homicide. The limited amount of publicly released investigative information suggests that detectives either did not develop a suspect they could publicly name or did not have sufficient evidence to bring charges.
Years after the shooting, Moran’s case remains publicly classified as unsolved. Boston police continue to seek information concerning unresolved homicides, including cases such as his in which many years have passed without an arrest. What began with the emergency response to a shooting on Archdale Road on July 1, 2007, therefore remains an open question: William Moran was killed, his death was formally ruled a homicide, but no person has been publicly held responsible for taking his life.
