HARTFORD — More than 100 people gathered in front of a North End bodega Monday evening to express their grief, frustration and fear after a 3-year-old boy was shot dead on the same corner two days earlier on a bloody day in a Hartford neighborhood that has long grappled with gun violence.
“This baby dying should be it,” Deborah Davis, of Mothers United Against Violence (MUAV), the group that organized the vigil for the boy, told the crowd that assembled near La Caribena Grocery at 175 Nelson St. “No more guns, let’s find other ways to solve our problems.