A late-night dispute outside Bertie’s West Indian Restaurant on North Main Street in Waterbury, Connecticut, ended in lethal gunfire on August 18, 2022. Police responded at about 12:47 a.m. after reports of shots fired and found 32-year-old Black/African American Lechard Santos in the parking lot with a single gunshot wound. He was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital and pronounced dead at 1:26 a.m.

Investigators identified 32-year-old Waterbury resident Joseph Whitaker as a prime suspect and obtained an arrest warrant charging him with Santos’s murder, setting bond at $2 million. Police recovered a 2012 silver Acura TL in nearby Southington believed to have been used by Whitaker. Whitaker turned himself in on August 23, 2022, and was charged with murder and several weapons and reckless endangerment counts.

Are there witnesses who were outside Bertie’s that night or anyone with information about the Acura or the events leading up to the shooting?