On the late evening of February 4, 2024, Jose Jesus Cortez, a 39-year-old Hispanic man from Hartford, Connecticut, was fatally shot. Police were dispatched around 11:20 p.m. after a ShotSpotter alert and found Cortez unresponsive inside a vehicle in the 70 block of Cabot Street with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital and pronounced dead.

Hartford Police Major Crimes and Crime Scene Divisions opened an immediate investigation. Family, friends, and community members gathered for a vigil organized in part by Mothers United Against Violence; his family described him as loving and caring and urged anyone with information to contact authorities. No arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified.

Did anyone in the area on Cabot Street that night see or hear anything that could help the investigation?