In the pre-dawn hours of October 30, 2019, Taylor Irizarry, a 21-year-old Black / African American man from New Britain, was fatally shot near an apartment building at 87 Spring Street in Hartford. ShotSpotter alerted police to a single gunshot just before 5 a.m.; there were no 911 calls reporting the shot. Officers found Irizarry with a single gunshot wound to his back and he was taken to St. Francis Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Investigators recovered one spent shell casing and described the incident as a very targeted attack.

Irizarry was a father of a five-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son. His mother said he had been treated for strep throat earlier that day and had taken a Lyft back to his Spring Street apartment; the driver told police they had not seen anything. Family and friends later held a vigil with roses, candles, and photos. No arrests had been publicly reported as of late 2019.

If anyone has information about what happened that morning near 87 Spring Street, please come forward.