Kevin Blanton, 44, was shot in the early hours of February 10, 2017 at 74 Ann Street in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Officers arrived after a report of a shooting around 1:09 a.m.; Blanton was found with a gunshot wound, given first aid, and taken to Baystate Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Investigators from the Chicopee Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Hampden District Attorney’s Office identified persons of interest quickly. Within 12 hours two people from Springfield were taken into custody: Michael Brawner, 29, and Sorheyddi Colondres, 33. The shooting was described by authorities as not random. Blanton was the former boyfriend of Colondres and the father of her daughter.

Court filings later showed Colondres pleaded guilty in January 2019 to misleading police and helping to cover up the killing, admitting she drove Brawner back to their Springfield home after he shot Blanton; she received a sentence of up to seven years in state prison. Brawner was tried for murder and in February 2019 a jury convicted him of second-degree murder; the verdict carried a life sentence with possibility of parole. Did anyone in the community know Kevin or have information about his last movements on February 10, 2017?