A Bay Street parking lot in Springfield became the scene of the city’s third homicide of 2024 on the afternoon of Monday, February 26. First responders arrived just before 4:00 p.m. to find 23-year-old Anthony Goss of Westfield inside a car with a fatal gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was identified as a White male.

Springfield Police Homicide Unit investigators focused quickly on a person of interest. The following day they located 25-year-old Tyreese Amaro of East Longmeadow; a search of Amaro’s backpack turned up three firearms and led to initial firearms charges. Detectives later tied Amaro to the shooting outside the El Fogon restaurant with surveillance footage, ballistic matches, and fingerprint analysis, and obtained a murder warrant. Amaro was arraigned and held without bail.

Goss had arranged to meet someone to sell a firearm before the shooting. Does anyone have information about that meeting or who else might have been involved?