A three-year-old boy, Randell Tarez Jones Jr., was killed in a drive-by shooting in Hartford on April 10, 2021. Randell was a passenger in a car with his mother and two siblings when another vehicle pulled alongside at the intersection of Garden and Nelson streets and opened fire. A bullet struck Randell, who was seated in the back; his mother rushed him to a nearby hospital, but he died of his injuries. The two other children in the vehicle were not physically harmed.

Investigators believe the shooters were aiming at a man who had been in the same car with Randell’s family; that man reportedly fled the scene and later cooperated with police. Within days Hartford police identified 19-year-old Jaziah Smith as the suspected shooter, and a juvenile who allegedly drove the stolen Honda Accord used in the attack was also arrested and charged. The April 10 incident was one of two fatal shootings in the city that day that authorities thought were connected.

Did anyone in Hartford see the car involved at Garden and Nelson on April 10, 2021, or have information about the people linked to these shootings?