He was 28 years old and male. On the evening of September 12, 2014, Milton Castro was shot multiple times near the intersection of Park Street and Hungerford Street in Hartford’s Frog Hollow neighborhood. Police and paramedics were called just after 9 p.m.; officers found him with a fatal gunshot wound to the head, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The killing marked Hartford’s 10th homicide of the year.
In the days that followed, detectives canvassed the area and collected evidence while major-crimes and crime-scene units worked the case. Community members organized a vigil the following week on Zion Street, a few blocks from where he was killed—a gathering requested by his family to honor him and to ask for support.
Authorities said early on that the motive was unclear, but several days after the shooting police announced that two men had been arrested in connection with the case. Local reporting identified the arrests but did not immediately provide further detail about the suspects in publicly accessible stories.
Public records and memorial listings continued to note Castro’s death on September 12, 2014, in Hartford, while community pages emphasized the loss felt by relatives, including a young child. The official homicide listing and contemporaneous news coverage remain the clearest public accounts of the crime and the subsequent arrests.
