Relatives have identified the young woman who was found shot to death Saturday inside a Boston property owned by the husband of Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Although Boston police have not publicly released the victim’s name, family members identified her as 18-year-old Yoseliani Marte in a GoFundMe campaign launched by her mother.
In the online fundraiser, Marte’s mother wrote that her daughter was killed as a “result of domestic violence.”
Officers were called to a home in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood at about 1:52 p.m. Saturday and found the victim with a single gunshot wound, according to police reports obtained by INC News.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and her husband Conan Harris join picketing hotel workers at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel on Sept. 2, 2024, in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)
Public records show the residence is owned by Conan Harris, who has been married to Pressley since 2014.
Pressley and Harris do not live in the two-family home, which the Boston Herald has reported is used as a rental property.
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The home is currently listed for sale for $1.15 million.
A spokesperson for Pressley’s office told Boston 25 News that neither the congresswoman nor her family were involved in the incident and that Pressley extends her deepest condolences to the family and loved ones impacted by the tragedy.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., listens to testimony from Minnesota lawmakers during a hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 7, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
A neighbor said the usually calm neighborhood was shaken by the large police response Saturday.
“We got home and there were police coming down the street, they blocked off with crime tape over there and neighbors gathered around,” a neighbor said, according to Boston 25 News.
“I mean it’s sad, it’s really sad because you know this neighborhood is a wonderful place to be.”
An aerial view of the Blue Hill Avenue and River Street intersection near Mattapan Square with Boston’s city skyline in the distance on June 22, 2026. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe)
Family and friends reportedly held a vigil for the victim Sunday night.
The manner of death remains under investigation, Boston police said.
INC News has reached out to Pressley’s office for comment.
