Fred K. Pines was 29 when he was shot and killed on November 18, 2011, in Hartford, Connecticut. Pines was sitting in the driver’s seat of his car on Enfield Street when another vehicle pulled up alongside. A man got out, fired a single shot through the passenger side window that struck Pines, then returned to the car and drove away.

Prosecutors said the shooting grew out of a dispute that began a week earlier over a stolen chain with a Jesus piece; they argued Joiner believed Pines had the chain. An eyewitness who rode with Roosevelt Joiner testified that Joiner told the driver to follow Pines, that Joiner exited the vehicle, and that the witness heard one gunshot. Ballistics testing linked the fatal bullet to a .38 caliber revolver later recovered from an associate of Joiner.

A jury found Roosevelt Joiner guilty of Pines’s murder and sentenced Joiner to 50 years in prison; an appeal challenging the sufficiency of the evidence was rejected. Did anyone who knew Fred Pines or who was in the area that night see anything that could shed more light on the events leading up to the shooting?