Police are investigating a drive-by shooting in Hartford that left a Massachusetts mother and her infant son dead and one other person injured on Tuesday afternoon.
Officers were dispatched to Hartford Hospital around 2:47 p.m. on Tuesday on a report of a vehicle arriving with multiple gunshot victims, according to Lt. Aaron Boisvert of the Hartford Police Department.
Officers learned that three victims were suffering from gunshot wounds. A 20-year-old woman, identified Jessiah Mercado of Springfield, Massachusetts, and her 4-month-old son, identified as Messiah Diaz, were pronounced dead at the hospital, Boisvert said. The third victim, a man in his 20s, was suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, according to Boisvert.
The driver of the vehicle was uninjured, Boisvert said.
Police determined that the shooting took place in the area of 380 New Britain Ave. moments earlier.
According to Boisvert, the victims were shot while in a vehicle after an unknown vehicle pulled up beside them and opened fire.
The Hartford Police Department’s Major Crimes and Crime Scene Divisions responded to the scene and are conducting the ongoing investigation.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Hartford Police Department Tip Line at 860-722-TIPS (8477).
