Seventeen-year-old Juan Bautista Garcia was shot and killed on the afternoon of August 8, 2021, on Martin Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Known as YNT Juan and described as an up-and-coming rapper, Garcia was found unresponsive inside a vehicle that had stopped in the road after reports of gunfire; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting was counted as Hartford’s 25th homicide of the year.

Hartford police identified a suspect and on November 3, 2021, U.S. Marshals and Hartford officers arrested 19-year-old Travis Johnson. Johnson was charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder and held on $2 million bond. Reports say the incident began as a planned marijuana transaction and that video captured the encounter; Johnson reportedly fired at the rear of Garcia’s car but was not the person who fired the shot that killed Garcia. Johnson later pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter with a firearm and received a 20-year prison term plus 10 years of special parole. Garcia’s family urged Johnson to name the person who fired the fatal shot, a request they say remains unanswered.

If anyone knew Juan’s movements that afternoon, the people involved, or saw the vehicle on Martin Street, please share information.