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Victim identified in shooting on Sigourney Street in Hartford

Police said it happened on the 200 block of Sigourney Street.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Hartford police are investigating a homicide on Sigourney Street on Friday afternoon.

Police said it happened just before noon on the 200 block of Sigourney Street.

At 11:39 a.m., police got a citizen's call reporting shots fired. Upon arrival, officers found an unresponsive male on the sidewalk. He was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead, according to police.

Police later identified the deceased victim as Michael Foley, 25, of Hartford.

“This stuff right here, I wish it would stop. I really do because these young boys they’re dying. They’re killing each other,” John Pearl, a Hartford resident said.

While on the scene, officers discovered there was a second victim, a man in his 50s, in the shooting. He was taken to the hospital with suspected non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Investigators believe the suspect was on foot when the shooting happened.

"At this point in the investigation, it appears that our deceased victim was the intended target, and our second victim -- doesn't look like it at this point; just the wrong place at the wrong time," said Hartford Police Lt. Aaron Boisvert as he addressed the media Friday afternoon.

No suspect description is available at this time and no arrests have been made.

“The shootings are happening too constantly in broad daylight. It’s frightening, it’s scary and it absolutely has to stop,” said Reverend Henry Brown of Hartford. “If you see something say something. If you know you see somebody that has the potential to kill somebody, take somebody’s life, or you know somebody that has an illegal gun that isn’t supposed to have that gun, call the police. They are here to protect and serve and we have to help them.”

This incident is Hartford's 11th homicide of 2022.

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