In the early hours of July 6, 2014, 24-year-old Kiromy Fontanez was shot dead in her Pearl Street home in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She lived there with her mother, her mother’s boyfriend, and her 5-year-old daughter. Kiromy’s ex-boyfriend, 35-year-old Jose Santiago, arrived at the house after she had ended their long-term relationship and forced his way inside around 3:36 a.m., armed with a legally registered .45-caliber handgun.

When Jorge Jimenez, the mother’s boyfriend, tried to stop Santiago he was shot in the leg. Santiago then went to the second-floor living room and fatally shot Kiromy in the lower jaw. Her mother and her young daughter were in the home but were not physically harmed. Santiago fled, took a taxi toward New Britain, and was arrested shortly afterward; he confessed to the shooting and was held on $3 million bond.

A judge sentenced Jose Santiago on April 22, 2016, to 36 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter with a firearm and first-degree assault. Does anyone have memories of Kiromy or information about the household that could help fill gaps in what happened that night?