Emuel Hernandez-Garcia, a 29-year-old Hispanic man born November 15, 1993, in Col. Benito Juarez, Soteapan, Veracruz, Mexico, died after a shooting in Springfield, Massachusetts, on August 6, 2023. Officers responded about 7:45 p.m. to Hancock and Union Streets where they found Hernandez-Garcia with a serious gunshot wound; he was taken to Baystate Medical Center and was later pronounced dead.

Investigators determined he had been involved in a physical altercation just before the shooting. The Springfield Police Homicide Unit identified a suspect and an arrest warrant was issued for 25-year-old Edgardo DeJesus-Vazquez. A coordinated operation with the Massachusetts State Police VFAS and the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department led to DeJesus-Vazquez’s arrest in an apartment on Pine Street. He faces multiple charges including murder, carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building.

Does anyone have information about Hernandez-Garcia’s movements that evening or witnessed the altercation near Hancock and Union Streets?