In the pre-dawn hours of November 1, 2021, shots were fired on Bushnell Street in Hartford and a man was found lying in the street with multiple gunshot wounds. He was identified as 36-year-old Erick Rodriguez of Allen Place. First responders began life-saving measures and he was taken to Hartford Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Erick Rodriguez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico and worked as an IT Specialist at Hartford Hospital. Family remembered him as a loving son, brother, and uncle with a quick wit and kind spirit; he enjoyed nature and exploring new places and had hoped to move to Florida to provide for his mother’s retirement. The Hartford Police Department’s Major Crimes and Crime Scene divisions opened a homicide investigation and asked anyone with information to contact their tips line.

Did anyone in Hartford’s Bushnell Street area see or hear anything that night that could help the investigation?