Wildemar Santiago was 16 when he was fatally shot on Martin Street in Hartford, Connecticut, in the early hours of Monday, September 27, 2021. He was a freshman at Weaver High School and had been attending a memorial on the sidewalk for a friend who had been killed on the same street about a month earlier. Officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert around 1 a.m., found Wildemar with gunshot wounds, and medical aid was given at the scene before he was taken to a local hospital, where he died.

His death was recorded as Hartford’s 28th homicide of 2021 and prompted community leaders and residents to call for an end to the gun violence affecting the city. The school district deployed a crisis intervention team to support students and staff grieving the loss. A suspect was later identified and charged in connection with the shooting.

Did anyone in Hartford who attended that memorial or lives near Martin Street see anything that night or know more about Wildemar’s life and friends?