Lavante Brown, Aydin Davis Obituary – Two Hartford high school students were fatally shot on Saturday night, as per reports. Police arrived at an apartment complex on Hendricxsen Avenue after receiving multiple calls about gunshots around 10:30 p.m. The victims, Lavante Brown, 19, from Hartford, and Aydin Davis, 16, from Bloomfield, were discovered unresponsive in a stairwell and were later pronounced dead at Hartford Hospital.
Superintendent Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, in a statement to the Hartford Public Schools community through WTNH, revealed that Brown was a student at Weaver High School and Davis attended University High School of Science and Engineering. The District Crisis Intervention Team has been activated to provide support to students, families, and school staff, with counselors and social workers available for those in need of assistance.