In the early hours of a Saturday in Hartford, Connecticut, the sound of gunfire pierced the quiet of the city’s north end. On March 19, 2016, 28-year-old Jeffery Vail, a Black male, was sitting in a car on Martin Street with his companion, 33-year-old William Ward. At approximately 2 a.m., an unknown assailant approached the vehicle and opened fire, unleashing a volley of bullets that shattered the pre-dawn stillness.
The city’s ShotSpotter system detected the gunfire, alerting the Ha
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