On the evening of December 1, 2010, 42-year-old Waqas Rehman was working at his store, The Smoker’s Shop, on Barbour Street in Hartford, Connecticut, when he was kidnapped from the business. A witness later reported hearing a confrontation in which an assailant demanded money and forced Rehman into a car. Shortly afterward police responded to a report of shots fired in a parking lot on Martin Street and found Rehman with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital and later died of his injuries.

The case remained unsolved for years until the Cold Case Unit of the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney, together with the Hartford Police Department and the Hartford State’s Attorney’s Office, reopened the investigation. In 2022 DNA testing linked a profile from a buccal swab taken from a man named Shawn Milner to evidence recovered from a live round at the scene, and in January 2023 authorities arrested 32-year-old Shawn Milner on charges including felony murder, murder, and first-degree kidnapping in connection with Rehman’s death.

Does anyone have information about Rehman, the Smoker’s Shop on Barbour Street, or the events that night that could help fill gaps in the timeline?