Police: Bob Ward report helped identify suspect in Boston woman's 2012 murder

BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- A family member of a slain Boston woman tells FOX 25's Bob Ward an arrest has been made in her murder.

Keosha Gilmore's step-father tells FOX 25 the Boston Police Homicide Unit notified him that a suspect is in custody for Keosha's brutal murder. He says Bob Ward's New England's Unsolved story helped to make the arrest happen.

Boston police confirmed the arrest. They say 26-year-old Christopher Jackson is charged with murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, and unlawful possession of ammunition.

Investigators say information they received, combined with interviews and a recent report by Bob Ward, led Jackson's arrest.

Gilmore was just 25 when she was shot to death at point blank range while sitting in a parked car in front of her boyfriend's home on Alabama Street in Mattapan on Feb. 19, 2012. Her boyfriend was in the driver's seat.

Investigators say the killer simply walked up the sidewalk and shot Gilmore. Boston detectives told Ward a K-9 tracking unit tracked the killer's scent out of the street and to a nearby school.

Ward considers the case baffling, because Gilmore was a young professional. She worked at the Radio Shack in the Dedham Mall. In fact, she was working there just before the murder. The 25-year-old had no connection to street violence in Boston.

Gilmore's step-father reached out to Ward in December 2012 and asked him to cover the case for New England's Unsolved.

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