On December 7, 2013, 23-year-old Shamar Willett was found with a gunshot wound to his chest in a second-floor apartment on Harding Place in New Haven. He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

An 18-year-old, Shunravion Jackson, was at the scene and gave multiple, conflicting accounts to police. Jackson first said he had just returned from McDonald’s and found Willett already wounded on the couch, then said he was in a bedroom smoking marijuana when he heard a shot. After being detained following a brief struggle with officers, Jackson later told investigators he and Willett were in the kitchen horsing around, that he picked up a pistol left on the table, and that Willett hugged him as he accidentally squeezed the trigger. Jackson was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter and interfering with police. Authorities described the shooting as reckless rather than intentional.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember anything from that afternoon on Harding Place?