On the evening of August 1, 2014, 25-year-old Tyrese Jones was walking near Kensington and Chapel streets in New Haven with a 26-year-old man when a gunman approached and opened fire. Both men were struck; police received several 911 calls around 9:47 p.m. and found the victims at the scene. They were taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where Tyrese Jones died shortly after midnight. The other man survived multiple gunshot wounds.

Witnesses described the shooter as a dark-complexioned male who fled in a car. New Haven police identified a suspect within a week and arrested 19-year-old Errol Godfrey-Hill on August 8, 2014; he had already been jailed on August 3 for carrying a handgun without a permit. Godfrey-Hill was charged with murder, first-degree assault, and related counts. In October 2016 a jury convicted him; in December 2016 a judge sentenced him to a total of 80 years, with 60 years for Jones’s murder and a consecutive 20 years for the assault on the surviving victim. Jones’s mother spoke at sentencing about the family’s grief; Godfrey-Hill’s family maintained his innocence.

If anyone knew Tyrese, his movements that night, or witnessed the shooting, please share what can help complete the record.