On the night of May 1, 2021, gunfire on Leete Street in Springfield, Massachusetts, led officers to a parked car where two men had been shot. Both were taken to Baystate Medical Center; one survived, and 22-year-old Black male Kamari-Khalil Lyles died of his injuries several days later on May 7, 2021.

Investigators pursued the case for months. On October 8, 2021, members of the Springfield Police Firearms Investigation Unit and a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested two people at an apartment in Chicopee — 23-year-old Joel Rodriguez and 20-year-old Brialee Garcia — and seized a large cache of weapons and ammunition. A third person, 28-year-old Christopher Hernandez of Chicopee, was implicated by February 2022.

A grand jury later indicted Rodriguez, Garcia, and Hernandez on first-degree murder and numerous firearms and related charges; all three were held without bail awaiting arraignment in Superior Court. Does anyone have information about Kamari-Khalil Lyles or the events on Leete Street that night?