On the evening of May 19, 2015, 17-year-old Mariano Gonzalez III was found in the driver’s seat of a white Honda near 124 Irving Street in Hartford’s North End with multiple gunshot wounds, including a severe head injury. ShotSpotter registered 17 gunshots in the area while neighbors reported hearing a rapid spray of bullets. Gonzalez was taken to Saint Francis Hospital and pronounced dead in the early hours of May 20, 2015; his death was recorded as Hartford’s 10th homicide of the year and the third in under a week.

The Hartford Police Department’s Major Crimes Division led the investigation and asked the public for information that could identify a suspect or a motive. Initial reports did not name any suspects, and the case remained unsolved for a time, leaving family and community members seeking answers.

Did anyone in Hartford’s North End see or hear anything that night that might still help explain what happened to Mariano Gonzalez III?