On the evening of May 1, 2022, gunfire was reported on the 400 block of Park Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Officers responding to a shooting at about 8:03 p.m. found a gravely wounded man identified as 34-year-old Javier Hernandez-Jiminian. He was taken to Hartford Hospital and initially listed in critical but stable condition.

Javier Hernandez-Jiminian died the next morning, May 2, 2022; his death was ruled a homicide. The Hartford Police Department’s Major Crimes and Crime Scene divisions opened an investigation. No information about suspects or arrests has been publicly released and the inquiry into the circumstances of his death is ongoing.

If anyone has information about what happened on Park Street that night, please share it with the Hartford Police Department.