Shortly after midnight on September 23, 2017, gunfire erupted on Albany Avenue near 1164 Albany Avenue in Hartford. Police who arrived around 12:38 a.m. found four people shot; 31-year-old Joshua Taylor was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining a single, fatal gunshot wound to the head. The shooting began as a verbal dispute on the sidewalk that quickly turned violent and investigators believe Taylor was the intended target.

A second man, 37-year-old Jovan Wooten, was also shot and taken to St. Francis Hospital; he later died on September 29, 2017. Two other victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Surveillance footage, forensic work, and citizen cooperation led detectives to identify a suspect. In November 2017 Hartford police arrested 40-year-old Latroy Johnson, a convicted felon then on probation, and charged him with two counts of murder, first-degree assault, and criminal possession of a firearm. Johnson was arrested at a scheduled probation meeting and held on $2 million bond.

Did anyone in Hartford see or hear anything that night that could add detail about the dispute or the sequence of events?