On August 4, 2020, at about 1:28 a.m., gunfire erupted inside an unsanctioned warehouse event at 818 Windsor Street in Hartford’s north end. Approximately 50 people were inside when a handgun was fired repeatedly; six people were wounded. Kennedy Burgess, a 28-year-old Black male, was critically injured and taken to Hartford Hospital, where he died shortly after 2 a.m. Police recovered numerous casings and other evidence at the subdivided warehouse unit and the Major Crimes and Crime Scene Division opened an investigation.

Investigators initially made no arrests and disclosed no suspect information. Days and weeks after the shooting produced few leads, and the case remained open. In June 2021, while interviewing a suspect in an unrelated fatal shooting, police were told that a man had been murdered in apparent retaliation for Burgess’s killing, a detail that expanded the context but did not produce an arrest in Burgess’s case. No suspects have been publicly identified.

Does anyone who attended the event or who knew Kennedy have information that could help investigators?