Darrion “Pritz” Carrington

Darrion “Pritz” Carrington, 18, was shot multiple times at close range inside the lobby of the Canton House, a fast-food Chinese restaurant on Dorchester Avenue, around 11:40 p.m. on January 7, 2008, while he waited for a late-night order and talked to a friend on his cellphone. He was rushed to Boston Medical Center and died of his wounds the next day. Carrington, raised at St. John's Missionary Baptist Church and a regular at the Roxbury Boys and Girls Club, had dreamed of playing basketball professionally. The Boston Police Department still lists his death among the city's unsolved 2008 homicides; no arrest has ever been made. His mother, Natasha Carrington, has since become an advocate for other families of unsolved homicide victims through the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute. A 2025 analysis by WBUR found that families of Black and Hispanic unsolved homicide victims in Massachusetts are more likely than others to be denied basic case updates by prosecutors citing open-investigation exemptions, even years after a case has gone cold.

Boston, MA · Suffolk County

• 2008: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• Victim identity, age, and the January 7–8, 2008 date and circumstances, per the Boston Police Department's official unsolved homicides list and contemporaneous news coverage.
• No arrest has ever been made in the case, per the same sources.

• No suspect has ever been publicly identified.
• The motive for the shooting was never established in any public account.

• Boston Police Department — official 2008 Unsolved Homicides list
• Boston 25 News — “New England's Unsolved: Who shot and killed Darrion Carrington?”
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs