The unsolved murder of Kendric Price, a beloved youth mentor gunned down on his childhood street in Dorchester

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Looks like Kendrick Price did everything right. He grew up on Greenwood Street in Dorchester, graduated from Buckingham Brown and Nicholls School in Cambridge, and won a scholarship to the University of Michigan, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in just three years.

The 6-foot-9-inch Price became a financial analyst and I started a non-profit organization It’s called the Big Business Network, where he works with kids, using basketball to teach them about finance.

“I’m not saying I can change the world,” Price said He told the Globe in 2012. “But I plan to make a difference one child at a time.”

Him too Basketball coachfirst as an assistant coach at Roxbury Community College and University of Massachusetts Bostonand later as head coach at Brock High School.

In March 2019, Price was settling into his new job at Cristo Rey Boston High School and preparing to move into a new apartment in downtown Boston when he was killed on Greenwood Avenue, the street he grew up on in Dorchester.

He was 32 years old.

No one was ever charged with his murder.

His mother, Carol Price, remembers the last time she saw him.

It was Friday night, and she had made him one of his favorite dishes for dinner: fried chicken with onions, green peppers, rice, cauliflower, and cheese.

“That day, he came home and said he was tired. But he was very tired,” she recalled.

Bryce told his mother that he would stay home and take it easy that night.

“He said he wouldn’t come out at all,” she said.

But for some reason, after his mother went to sleep, he changed his mind and decided to stop at a parking garage at 12A Greenwood Avenue, down the street from his mother’s house. The garage was a popular party place,According to Globe reports at the time.

“It was a party, after hours,” she said.

That’s where he was when the shooting broke out just before 3 a.m

Officers found his body Full of gunshot woundsaccording to the police. The police report did not indicate that anyone else was injured.

For a long time, Bryce kept thinking that if only she had been awake, she could have stopped him before he walked out the door.

“I beat myself up for a long time,” she said.

She still wonders who was at the party when her son was shot.

She said that after her son was killed, many people came to her to show their support while she was grieving. But no one talked about what actually happened that night, leading her to assume that witnesses had not come forward and “no one told the police anything.”

When she spoke to investigators immediately after his death, she begged them to find out what had happened and to arrest those responsible for killing her son.

“Please don’t let this become a cold case,” she said. “I want justice for my son”

Seven years later, she’s still waiting.

“I would love someone who knows something to come forward,” she said. “This perpetrator has likely killed other people since then. He must be held accountable.”

Carol Price doesn’t like using the word “anniversary” to describe the date of her son’s death. For her, March 2 marks “Trauma Remembrance Day,” a day on which she recalls the pain and suffering she felt when she learned she had lost her son.

She said Price had a lot of opportunities and should have had a bright future.

She remembered how busy he was always with school, sports and other extracurricular activities. This is exactly what she wanted: for him to pursue his interests and stay out of trouble.

“I always thought I never wanted the streets to get my son,” she said. “Unfortunately, he went to a party, and this is what happened.”

Carol Price still lives on the same street where her son was killed and has to stop by the garage where he spent his last moments.

She couldn’t help but wonder what could have been.

“Kendrick is back in Boston,” she said. “He chose to come back and help those left behind.”

So she tries to turn her pain into something productive, by giving back to the community like Bryce did.

She said she continues to run Big Business Network because it helps people and “reminds me of him.”

Boston Police say they are continuing to investigate Price’s killing.

“It is an open and active investigation,” Boston Police Department spokesman John Boyle said. “We would urge anyone to come forward with information, no matter how little they may think.”

Anyone with information about the murder of Kendrick Price can contact Boston Police homicide detectives at 617-343-4470. Those who wish to leave an anonymous tip can call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-494-TIPS or text the word “TIP” to 27463.

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Emily Sweeney can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her @EmilySweeney And on Instagram @amiliswini22.