On the evening of January 5, 2016, 18-year-old Nasashalie Hoy was found in a basement on Broad Street in Hartford with a gunshot wound to her neck. She was taken to Hartford Hospital and pronounced dead shortly before midnight. A male witness at the scene, 21-year-old Torrick Maragh, initially told police Hoy had shot herself.

Detectives working the scene recovered two sawed-off shotguns and other forensic evidence that prompted Maragh’s immediate arrest on weapons charges. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled Hoy’s death a homicide, and in April 2016 investigators obtained a murder warrant charging Maragh with one count of murder. Maragh pleaded not guilty and remained held on the weapons counts during the proceedings.

A jury in Hartford reached a verdict in January 2019; Maragh was acquitted of murder but convicted on illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun and sentenced for that firearm offense. Does anyone have information about Hoy’s last known movements or who might have been with her that night?