On the night of Friday, April 15, 2022, 21-year-old Karmari Alexander of Springfield, Massachusetts, was shot in an apartment building on the 1000 block of Worthington Street. Officers arrived at about 10:05 p.m. and found Alexander with a gunshot wound; he was taken to Baystate Medical Center and pronounced deceased.

Springfield Police Homicide Unit and the Hampden District Attorney’s Murder Unit investigated and identified a suspect. An arrest warrant for 21-year-old Andre Wise of Hartford, Connecticut, was issued on April 25, 2022. Wise was later located and arrested in Springfield during an operation involving Springfield police, a U.S. Marshals task force, Massachusetts state police, the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office, and the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department. Authorities reported seizing a loaded firearm and crack cocaine at the time of arrest.

Wise was charged with murder in Alexander’s death and with multiple additional offenses including five counts of home invasion, assault with a dangerous weapon, and various firearms and drug possession charges.

Did anyone in the community have contact with Karmari in the days before April 15 who could help investigators?