On March 18, 2017, 18-year-old Gregory Francilme, a Black/African American male, was shot near the entrance of an apartment complex on Bretton Street in Bridgeport and later died at St. Vincent’s Medical Center from gunshot wounds to the back of his head and torso. A 27-year-old man from Stamford was also shot multiple times in the same incident and survived. Both men were found lying on the ground behind the building.

Investigators arrested 19-year-old Tikhari Morton the day after the shooting on an unrelated armed robbery charge in Waterbury; while in custody for that case Morton admitted to the Bridgeport shootings, saying he had been selling marijuana behind the building and shot after feeling threatened. The surviving victim told police they had come to buy sneakers from Morton and that he began shooting for no reason.

Morton was tried; the jury returned not guilty on murder but convicted him of first-degree manslaughter with reckless indifference to human life, first-degree assault, and possession of a pistol without a permit. He was later sentenced to a lengthy prison term; Francilme’s mother attended the sentencing. Does anyone have memories or information about Francilme, the scene on Bretton Street, or the events that evening?