The family of a man shot to death at a Mattapan Square New Year's party on Jan. 1, 2023 today filed a wrongful-death suit against both the woman they say gave the party in a Blue Hill Avenue commercial space and the landlord she rented the space from.

The family of Jymaal Cox, declared dead at the scene at 1601 Blue Hill Ave. shortly before 6 a.m., is seeking at least $150 million in the suit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court.

Another man who was shot at the party, but who survived, Melvin Gross, filed a similar suit against the landlord, Stamatos Family Properties of Jamaica Plain, last year. That suit, brought by the same law firm, is still pending.

Boston Police list Cox's murder as unsolved.

In their suit, the Cox family alleges that Kizuwanda Evans rented space in the commercial bu

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