A resident leaving for work about 1:30 a.m. on February 19, 2019, found an unresponsive man in the parking lot of the Woodland Drive apartment complex in Hartford. The man was identified as 26-year-old Joseph Goiangos III of Middletown. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Investigators initially noted a puncture wound to Goiangos’s chest but ShotSpotter sensors had not recorded gunfire in the area. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later determined the wound was a small-caliber gunshot and ruled the death a homicide. Police said Goiangos’s car was found in Hartford’s south end and that he had two pending Middletown court cases related to firearms.

On July 12, 2019, Hartford police announced they had identified a suspect and, with the U.S. Marshals Violent Fugitive Task Force, arrested 27-year-old Tamair Chance, charging him with murder and criminal possession of a firearm; he was held on $1.5 million bond. If anyone knew why Joseph Goiangos III was at the Woodland Drive complex that night or saw anything in the area, please share what you know.