On the afternoon of May 7, 2025, 25-year-old Jared Alexander Floyd, known to family and friends as Red, was fatally shot in the 1000 block of Capitol Avenue near James Street in Hartford. First responders found him unresponsive around 1:28 p.m.; he was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead later that afternoon.

Investigators believe the shooting was retaliatory. Detectives tied the killing to an earlier April 4 shooting near the same building; ballistics linked a shell casing from that April incident to a gun Floyd’s girlfriend turned over after his death. Police identified 26-year-old Kevin Cruz-Gomez as a suspect and, according to the affidavit, were told by two witnesses in Plattsburgh, New York, that Cruz-Gomez bragged about the killing and showed a news article saying I caught the body.

Floyd was born June 22, 1999, in Farmington and graduated from Pathways Academy of Science and Design in 2017. He studied saxophone at the Artists Collective, enjoyed sports, had recently recommitted to his faith, and was planning for the future. Anyone with information about his death is urged to come forward.