Randi Jermaine Gunn, a 43-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 30, 2024. Around 7:15 p.m. ShotSpotter detected nine rounds in the 600 block of Garden Street. Officers found Gunn unresponsive with five gunshot wounds to his torso, legs, and arm; he was taken to Saint Francis Hospital and pronounced dead.

Investigators say the shooting followed a heated verbal altercation and was captured on a privately owned surveillance camera. The footage reportedly shows Gunn confronting a man in a car and challenging him to get out and shoot. Police say the suspect, identified as 53-year-old Marcus Solo Arnold of Manchester, fired through the rear passenger side window, striking Gunn multiple times. Eight spent casings and two bullet fragments were recovered, and a relative who witnessed the shooting knew the suspect only by the nickname Solo. Authorities believe both men were involved with the same woman, and that tension over that relationship contributed to the dispute; the woman had reportedly called police earlier that day to report Gunn’s whereabouts because he was wanted on domestic violence charges.

Arnold was located in Manchester about seven hours after the shooting and charged with murder, held on $2 million bond. Gunn’s family remembered him as generous, flamboyant in his youth, and later a proud father who was the life of the party. Does anyone have information about Gunn, the events that led to that evening, or the surveillance footage?