In the early hours of a Friday morning in Hartford, Connecticut, the life of Melvin Baskerville, a 58-year-old Black male, was tragically cut short. On March 15, 2019, at approximately 1 a.m., the city's ShotSpotter system detected the sound of gunfire in the Clay Arsenal neighborhood, drawing police to a building at 114 Mather Street. It was there, in the rear stairwell, that officers discovered Baskerville suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was a resident of the same street, living jus
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