Andrew Reid

Andrew Reid was 28 when he died on August 12, 2015, in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Public records and reporting identify him as a young man known to his family and neighbors in a closely knit community. Though full details of his life are scarce in the public record, local accounts from the days after his death recall a person whose presence mattered to people nearby: neighbors and family members who visited the site in grief and who spoke quietly of loss.

News coverage from the time noted that the shooting occurred in the courtyard area near Ernst and Bragdon streets, and that the community was shaken by the violence that night. A person quoted in coverage remembered that the victim “loved to play baseball,” a small but meaningful detail that suggests how Andrew spent some of his time—on neighborhood fields, in shared moments with friends and family. That recollection, offered by someone who knew him, points to a life with ordinary joys and local ties.

Because no family-published obituary or funeral-home notice matching his name and the exact date of death was located in the public obituary indexes examined, many intimate details of Andrew’s life—his work, schooling, or extended family list—are not publicly verifiable. What is clear from reliable public sources is that his death left a visible hole in his neighborhood: family and neighbors gathered, mourned, and asked for answers in the days that followed. The Boston Police Department and contemporaneous local reporting documented the facts of the shooting and that his death was ruled a homicide, but those official descriptors do not capture the human relationships and daily life Andrew had.

This remembrance honors Andrew Reid as a real person who belonged to a family and a community. Even where public records are limited, the recollections preserved in local reporting—neighbors who called him a good man and memories of shared pastimes—are testimony that his life had meaning beyond the headlines. May this page hold space for that human presence and for the hope that his loved ones continue to find comfort and, someday, answers.