On the evening of May 28, 2006, 15-year-old Kerry Foster Jr. was killed in a drive-by shooting in Hartford, Connecticut. Foster and a 14-year-old friend, both students at Fox Middle School and described as not gang-involved, were standing at the corner of Elmer and Clark Streets in the Nelton Court area when at least seventeen shots were fired into the group. Foster was struck five times and died; his friend was seriously wounded by three bullets.

Police later determined the attack was retaliatory, tied to an earlier gang-related shooting the same day and carried out without a specific target. Investigators identified three occupants of the vehicle: Paul Davis (driver), Ackeem Riley (shooter), and Dominique Mack (armed and part of the discussion to carry out the shooting). In August 2009 Davis and Riley were arrested. A 2013 jury convicted Davis of accessory to murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and criminal attempt to commit murder; he received a total effective sentence of 100 years. Riley pleaded no contest to accessory to murder and guilty to accessory to first-degree assault; prosecutors could not conclusively tie which shooter’s rounds hit Foster and his friend.