The drive-by shooting that took Se'cret's life also wounded three others, police have said. Se’Cret, who was a seventh-grade student at Milner Middle School in Hartford, was pronounced dead at 7 a.m. on Friday, April 21, having been shot the night before.
A man who allegedly returned gunfire in a shooting that killed a 12-year-old in Hartford last week has been charged, and a juvenile who was injured has been remanded to custody after investigators discovered he was on probation and house arrest.
After almost 50 years, a United States district judge in Bridgeport has ended federal oversight into the 1973 decent decree for the Hartford Police Department.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A judge has ended the nearly 50 years of federal oversight of police in Hartford, Connecticut, despite continued concerns the department still has not hired enough minority officers to reflect the city’s large Black and Hispanic populations. U.S. District Judge Kari Dooley in Bridgeport issued a 10-page ruling late Friday, April 14th, 2023 saying the plaintiffs failed to prove the police department was violating any part of the original 1973 consent decree agreement or revisions made to it in 2010. Dooley approved the city’s request to dissolve the consent decree, which was to have ended four