In the early hours of Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 43-year-old Alfredo Cuellar Jr. was shot on Rowe Avenue in Hartford and later died at a hospital from multiple gunshot wounds. City ShotSpotter detected about seven gunshots at approximately 1:41 a.m., and officers found Cuellar lying in the street. The Hartford Police Department’s Major Crimes and Crime Scene Divisions opened a homicide investigation.

Cuellar was born in Hartford and is remembered by family as energetic, athletic, loyal and affectionate. His parents are Alfredo Cuellar Sr. and Isabel Nunez; he is survived by a son, Alfredo Cuellar II. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced; the investigation remains active.

Did anyone in the Rowe Avenue area that night see or hear anything that could help investigators?