On the evening of March 24, 2014, a burst of gunfire shattered a New Haven neighborhood. Seventeen-year-old Taijhon Washington, a Black male, was fatally shot near Butler and Lilac streets shortly before 9 p.m. His 16-year-old half-brother, who was with him, was also struck in the head and survived.

Investigators tied the shooting to a simmering feud between different groups of young people. Authorities identified 18-year-old Jeffrey Covington as a suspect; he was arrested in April 2014 and charged with murder, first-degree assault for the younger brother’s injury, and multiple weapons offenses. At trial the jury deadlocked on the murder and first-degree assault counts in October 2015, producing a mistrial on those charges but convicting Covington of carrying a pistol without a permit. A judge sentenced him to 10 years on the weapons conviction. A retrial on the murder and assault charges was later scheduled; in July 2016 a jury acquitted Covington of those counts.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember that night or observed tensions between the groups involved?