Family of slain man offer $10G reward for tips
Heartbroken relatives of a man fatally shot in Mattapan in
2011 are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, Boston police said yesterday.
According to video posted at www.bpdnews. com, the family of Daniel Bunch is pleading for the public to step up.
Bunch was with friends when he was fatally shot outside a gas station on Blue Hill Avenue near Babson Street shortly before midnight on Oct. 8, 2011, police said. The suspect was “driven from the scene in a vehicle,” police said.
“I miss him and I miss him every single day,” Bunch’s mother, Maribel Pomales-Bunch, said in the video about her son’s unsolved case. “Our family chain has been broken and we’ll never be the same. ... There is no end to our loss. There is no end to our pain.”
BPD Sgt. Detective James Wyse said on the video that investigators need the public’s help to crack the case. Cops and prosecutors need one or two witnesses in order to bring justice to Bunch’s family, Wyse said.
“Nobody has a right to go and shoot anyone. That’s not how society operates. When you witness something, you should come forward and help in the investigation.”
Pomales-Bunch reiterated that frustration: “No one has come up to say, ‘I actually saw the person who shot Daniel.’ No one has stepped up to the plate to say that.”
She added that an arrest can never bring her son back, but it would provide some solace and ensure the streets are safer.
“It will be just a bit of justice for Daniel . ... Someone who kills, takes a life, they will do it again.”
Anyone with information on Bunch’s 2011 homicide is urged to call police anonymously at 1-800494-TIPS.