On the morning of December 20, 2014, 23-year-old Hispanic man Hiram Sito Martinez was shot dead in a parked car near Colt Park in Hartford, Connecticut. Martinez and another man, Dederick Jiminez, were riding together when a backseat passenger opened fire around 5:30 a.m.; Martinez died of a gunshot wound to the head and Jiminez was wounded in the shoulder and elbow but survived.

Investigators tied the killing to a recent homicide: six days earlier Mariano Papa Gonzalez had been murdered, and authorities suspected Martinez of involvement in that slaying. The surviving victim, Jiminez, identified the shooter as a man he knew as Pipone, later identified as 37-year-old Tyrone Rosa, and said Rosa was a close friend of Gonzalez. According to Jiminez, Martinez had admitted to killing Gonzalez, and Rosa shot Martinez in apparent retaliation after directing Jiminez to park on Hendricxsen Avenue.

Does anyone have additional information about Martinez’s life in Hartford or about the incident that could help clarify the circumstances leading up to the shooting?