In the pre-dawn hours of August 5, 2022, gunfire at a Jefferson Avenue home in Bristol, Connecticut left 27-year-old Leonaldo Encarnacion wounded. He was found at his residence around 3:10 a.m., taken to a local hospital, and died of a gunshot wound to the torso on August 8, 2022. An autopsy ruled his death a homicide.

Encarnacion had moved to Connecticut from Brooklyn, New York, hoping for a quieter life. Family described him as loving and devoted to his nieces and nephew, whose names he had tattooed, and said he had recently been released from jail and was living with a female friend. He reportedly hoped to start a real estate business with his siblings and be closer to his father in Waterbury.

Authorities treated the shooting as an isolated incident. On August 17, 2022, police announced arrests of two people from Chicopee, Massachusetts; one was charged with murder and the other with conspiracy to commit murder. Did anyone in the Bristol area know Leonaldo or see activity on Jefferson Avenue that night?