{"id":202287,"date":"2026-05-26T03:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202287\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:01:29","slug":"mother-seeks-justice-after-son-killed-in-kensington-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202287\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother seeks justice after son killed in Kensington \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leslie Santiago says life has been filled with \u201cpain and suffering\u201d since her 19-year-old son, Joshua Boston Martinez, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/investigation-underway-after-man-killed-in-hail-of-gunfire-in-kensington\/4396411\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/investigation-underway-after-man-killed-in-hail-of-gunfire-in-kensington\/4396411\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shot and killed earlier this month in Philadelphia\u2019s Kensington neighborhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was only a boy,\u201d Santiago said. \u201cI don\u2019t even know what else to say or think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Santiago said she was awakened in the middle of the night on May 4, 2026, and told her only son had been gunned down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said why? My son had no problems with nobody,\u201d Santiago said. \u201cWhy did that happen? My son didn\u2019t have any problems with nobody. He was a sweetheart. He always respect others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said Boston Martinez was shot just before 1 a.m. on the 3200 block of G Street in Kensington.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found him lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the torso. Investigators also found shell casings scattered across the street and sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>Boston Martinez was taken to Temple University Hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago said her son had been with friends when he was shot and she believes someone knows more about what happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody knows something and they\u2019re not trying to say what really happened,\u201d Santiago said. <\/p>\n<p>Santiago described her son as respectful and hardworking. She said he played baseball in high school and had recently started working for Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll I have is memories,\u201d Santiago said. \u201cEvery time I walk through the door, I see him laying on the couch in the morning sleeping, or constantly hear him saying, \u2018Mom, what are you cooking today?\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two men now face charges in connection with the killing.<\/p>\n<p>With a preliminary hearing scheduled for Tuesday, Santiago said she is hoping for justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want them to do their job and I want justice for my son,\u201d Santiago said. <\/p>\n<p>This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC Philadelphia. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC Philadelphia journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leslie Santiago says life has been filled with \u201cpain and suffering\u201d since her 19-year-old son, Joshua Boston Martinez,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[758,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-202287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gun-violence","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}