On the evening of June 11, 2017, 33-year-old Timothy Burt Jr., a Black man, was found unresponsive on Enfield Street in Hartford after police responded to a ShotSpotter alert. He had multiple gunshot wounds, was taken to a nearby hospital, and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Detectives focused on 24-year-old Samuel Stevenson after learning Burt and Stevenson had a history of altercations. Two days before the shooting the men had a physical fight near Greenfield and Enfield Streets; city surveillance captured a large disturbance involving both men in that area. Stevenson was arrested on June 20, 2017, and charged with murder and criminal possession of a firearm; authorities recovered a firearm they believed was the weapon used to kill Burt. He was held on $1.5 million bond.

In October 2018 Stevenson entered an Alford plea to the murder charge, acknowledging prosecutors likely had enough evidence for conviction without admitting guilt and faced a sentence of more than 32 years. Does anyone have information about the earlier dispute between Burt and Stevenson or the days leading up to June 11, 2017?