Jakari Lewis, 28, was shot and killed in Hartford in the early morning hours of February 17, 2019. The shooting occurred about 1:45 a.m. in the parking lot of the Vibz Uptown nightclub on Main Street as the club was closing. Two other people, a 29-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, were wounded in the same incident. Lewis was taken to a nearby hospital and died shortly after arrival; his death was recorded as Hartford’s second homicide of 2019.

A Hartford native born July 28, 1990, Lewis grew up in Hartford and Bloomfield and graduated from Weaver High School. He was a devoted father to twins Jakari Jr. and Jahniya Lewis, worked at Bar Louie in West Hartford, and was planning to start a juice bar called Rachels in honor of his grandmother. Family and community members held a vigil outside the nightclub and urged witnesses to come forward. Police opened an investigation and asked the public to use an anonymous tip line; there have been no public announcements of arrests or identified suspects.

Did anyone who was in the area that night or who knew Jakari come forward with information?