Savonnie Vahnnie McNeil, a 37-year-old Black man, was killed on the night of June 11, 2015, at the Trumbull Gardens housing project in Bridgeport, Connecticut. McNeil was among a crowd in a parking lot when at least two gunmen opened fire, discharging more than 50 rounds. Nine people were shot in the attack; an elderly woman in a second-floor apartment was struck by a stray bullet while she was in the shower. Witnesses reported hearing the shooters yell reload and make sure we kill everybody as they continued firing while fleeing on foot.

Police described the shooting as believed to be gang-related and retaliatory. Investigators from the Bridgeport Police Department, the FBI Safe Streets Task Force, and the state’s attorney’s office worked the case. In September 2015 two men, 24-year-old Jamal Moo Moo Hamilton and 24-year-old Kevan Web Bennett, who were already incarcerated on unrelated charges, were arrested and charged with one count of murder, eight counts of first-degree assault, and weapons offenses, with bonds set at one million dollars.