The homicide comes within 48-hours of the fatal shooting that took the life of 19-year-old Makhi Buckly, who was the third teenager in Hartford to be killed by gunfire this year.
Buckly was shot in the torso around 3:45 p.m. Monday, outside 152 Amherst St., police said. Three Hartford teens were arrested on gun and evidence tampering charges Wednesday in connection to Buckly’s death.
Including Wednesday’s homicide, the capitol city has seen 16 murders in 2021, a 33% increase from the 12 murders through May 30 last year.
The number represents the most murders in just over a five-month time frame than in any of the past seven years, police data shows, though it remains down significantly from the record highs of violence in the early to mid-1990s in both the capital city and across the country.