Jeff Worrell, a 63-year-old handyman who lived in the neighborhood and worked as a live-in maintenance man for a nearby apartment building, was shot and killed while sitting on a picnic bench in a small park at Garden and Westland streets in Hartford on the afternoon of Sunday, July 16, 2017. He was struck in the head by a stray bullet from a drive-by shooting and later pronounced dead at Saint Francis Hospital. Police determined he was not the intended target.

Hartford detectives used area surveillance to identify a stolen vehicle linked to the shooting; that car was later found in nearby New Britain. Interviews and evidence collection led investigators to two suspects. On July 19, 2017, police arrested 18-year-old Deykevious Russaw and an unnamed 16-year-old male from Middletown, charging both with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Reports state the teenagers had been randomly firing at a group of people when Worrell was unintentionally hit.

Does anyone have information about Jeff’s routine in that park or who may have been present that afternoon?