On a late afternoon in Hartford, Connecticut, the life of Trelique Jarule Ward, a 22-year-old Black/African American male, was irrevocably altered. The events of June 9, 2021, unfolded on Kent Street around 5:30 p.m. when the Hartford Police Department was alerted to gunfire by a ShotSpotter activation. Arriving at the scene, officers discovered evidence of a shooting, but no victims were present.
Shortly after the police arrived on Kent Street, two men with gunshot wounds appeared at a l
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