HARTFORD, Conn — There have been 16 homicides in Hartford thus far in 2020 and police are hoping they are not going to have to add to that total after a double shooting Wednesday afternoon on Sterling St.
Approximately a half block south of Albany Ave., Many people were gathered on the porch i’ll be home in front of which a man and woman were shot by a person who remains at large.
The victims, whose relationship is unknown, or rushed to Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, we are police say they were being treated for serious, but not life-threatening injuries.
“We are facing two pandemics, you know, the COVID-19 and gun violence,” said Rev. Henry Brown. “Unfortunately, COVID-19 has silenced the gun violence that goes on in Hartford.
“It almost seems like it’s a generational thing,” said Henrietta Beckman, President of Mothers United Against Violence. “You know, my son was shot 18 years ago and you would think that things would be better now, but you still have the same issues with the guns and whatever else is going on in the neighborhoods.”
Her son, Randy Beckman, died in that shooting 18 years ago. Rev. Brown says the only way to stop these shootings is to have witnesses start talking.
“If you give a shooter life and what I mean by life is if you give the thought that I can do what I want to do because nobody’s going to talk about that’s why these things keep going on.”
And, he says, he knows people see what’s going on.
“You look at the street right here right now behind me you see all of those people out on the porches,” Brown said. “People saw it. Somebody saw something and they won’t say a word to the cops and that is the major problem!”
While police report that the injuries were not life-threatening, Rev. Brown says he visited with some family members, who tell him that actually might not be the case.