Jay’Quawne Wilshawn Ward, 31, was found inside a car with an apparent gunshot wound in the early morning of November 21, 2021. Springfield police answered a report of a shooting at about 12:40 a.m. on Albemarle Street, between Wilbraham Road and Westford Circle. Emergency medical personnel provided aid but Ward was pronounced dead at the scene. The Hampden District Attorney’s Office publicly identified him as the victim.

The Springfield Police Homicide Unit and the DA’s Murder Unit opened an active investigation. If anyone has information about Ward, his movements that night, or the shooting on Albemarle Street, please share what is known with the investigators. How can readers who were in that area that night help move this case forward?