Drawer 5 · Public safety
Paper for this street number
Police and fire, for 25 Malta Street. Mattapan Street is a different street. 8 Malta Street is a different house. The country of Malta is a different country.
The only BPD release
Police “Victim Identified in Homicide Investigation at 25 Malta Street in Mattapan.” Posted July 30, 2026. The page uses Malta Road in the address and Malta Street in the headline. Same building. A search of BPD releases for this number, 2016 through 2026, returns this one hit.
~1:52 p.m., Sat July 18
Walk-in at District E-18, Hyde Park. A person has been shot at 25 Malta Street, apartment #2, and is still on scene. A radio call goes out the same minute.
Minutes after
E-18 officers at 25 Malta Road / Street. Entry. Protective sweep. A woman with an apparent gunshot wound in a rear bedroom of apartment #2. Pronounced dead on scene.
Same afternoon
Death investigation. Crime-scene tape. For-sale sign still in the yard.
Sun July 19
Autopsy.
Thu July 30
Medical examiner: homicide. Single gunshot wound to the head. Yoseliani Ann Marte Ocasio, 18, of Boston.
July 30 and after
Homicide Unit. Tip line 617-343-4470. CrimeStoppers 1-800-494-TIPS. No arrest announced as of September 29, 2026.
Police Mariellen Burns, Boston Police communications, quoted by the Globe and the Herald: “There is absolutely nothing that indicates any connection to the owners of the property.”
The walk-in is not named in any official release. What police said.
What neighbors told television
Scene rumor NBC10 Boston, July 30: neighbors said they heard a single gunshot the night before the body was found. That is a time-of-death lead. Boston Police have not adopted it as the hour of the shooting. The walk-in is Saturday afternoon. The shot may have been Friday night. Open question.
The raid, two months earlier
Scene rumor A neighbor comment after July 18 said police had been at the house about two months before, roughly May 2026. This pass could not pin that sentence to a named Globe, Herald, or BPD quote with an incident number.
Status: unconfirmed neighbor claim. It stays in the open file until a CAD number, a warrant return, or an Inspectional Services entry card exists. A YouTube comment and a people-search page do not confirm it. A raid in the country of Malta does not confirm it.
Other police paper
Police A search of BPD news releases for 25 Malta Street, 25 Malta Road, and 25 Malta St returns one hit: July 18–30, 2026.
Unverified No fire at this address turned up. No warrant-execution release at this address turned up. The crime-incident file was not fully filtered for street MALTA and number 25. That filter is still due. A row on Malta Street is not a row in this house until the number is on it.
Which district
The house is in Mattapan. Mattapan’s district house is B-3, 1165 Blue Hill Avenue. The walk-in was taken at E-18 Hyde Park. E-18 officers entered 25 Malta. The district on the paper is not always the district of the porch. After the death is ruled a homicide, the Homicide Unit at headquarters owns the case.
Do not import these
8 Malta Street, Nov 27, 2008
Paul Brown, 29, shot. Different house. Eighteen years earlier.
10 Mattapan Street, April 2019
Eleanor Maloney. Different street.
567B Norfolk Street, Sept 2025
A warrant. Different address.
33 Regis Road, April 2025
A shooting. Different address.
1466 Blue Hill Avenue, June 20, 2026
Different address. Not July 18.
St Julian’s / Valletta, July 2026
The country of Malta. Not this street.
What this drawer can say
In ten years of public BPD paper, 25 Malta Street appears once. An 18-year-old was shot in apartment #2 on or before the afternoon of July 18, 2026. Ruled a homicide July 30. No arrest. The owners have not been named as connected.
The raid is a rumor until it has a number. The Friday-night gunshot is a neighbor statement until it is on a CAD card.
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