73-year-old great-grandmother killed on front porch, Boston Police searching for suspect

BOSTON — Boston Police are still looking for the person who shot and killed 73-year-old Delois Brown on her Dorchester front porch Saturday night.

“I’m broken. I can’t sleep. I can’t eat,” Shirley Brown, Delois’ daughter told me.

On Saturday night, just before 6, Shirley’s 73-year-old mother, Delois Brown, was shot to death on her front porch at 19 Olney Street.

Shirley spoke to me as she sat in the same spot where it all happened. And all around her were the shooter’s bullet holes, and the measurement marks Boston Police detectives left behind.

“I’m still in shock. I can’t believe she’s gone” Shirley said.

Boston Police tell us this case is very active, that detectives are working hard to find answers.

“I heard a sound, pop! I thought it was a firecracker,” Shirley Brown remembers.

Shirley quickly applied pressure to her mother’s chest as she tried to save her life.

“My mother said, ‘I got shot, I got shot, I got hit,’” Shirley said. " She took her last breath before the police got here. Before the EMT got here.”

Shirley Brown told me she caught a glimpse of the shooter, standing near a neighbor’s driveway.

She believes the shooter was trying to hit another man, sitting in front of Delois, on the steps.

On this Monday, a memorial of flowers and candles grows in the front year at 19 Olney St.

Grief is everywhere.

8-year-old Malliah Evans was Delois’ great-granddaughter.

“I love her. My whole family loves her. We miss her. And the fun things we used to do together,” Malliah said.

“She’s still here next to me. But, she’s just invisible.”

Call Boston Police Crimestoppers at 1.800.494.TIPS, if you have any information.

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