In the early morning hours of May 29, 2021, 37-year-old Abushante Jennings was shot on Bertil Hammarlof Road in Springfield, Massachusetts. Police responded to a shots-fired call on Lionel Benoit Road at about 4:10 a.m. and found Jennings with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to Baystate Medical Center and died shortly after arrival.

Investigators say Jennings was a passenger who got out of a car to help a woman who had been beaten, threatened, and kidnapped earlier that morning. The woman had escaped and flagged down the vehicle; when Jennings stepped out to assist her, the suspect approached and shot him multiple times.

The Springfield Police Homicide Unit and the Hampden District Attorney’s Murder Unit opened an investigation. Does anyone have information about Jennings, his movements that morning, or witnesses who saw the vehicle or the shooting?