59 Guns Collected During Hartford Gun Buyback

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NBC Connecticut | Hartford Police Department held a gun buyback Saturday morning in an effort to get guns off the street and curb violence in the Capital City.

“The program is fully anonymous. You can come in, give no names, no idea, no questions asked, and you will get a hand receipt showing that you turned in a gun,” Sgt. Chris Mastroianni said.

The gun buyback has been taking place in Hartford for about seven years.

“I think what it does it gives some people an Avenue to get rid of them a lot of people have guns in their house and they just don’t know how to get rid of them,” Sgt. Mastroianni said.

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Woman, 56, was ‘minding her business’ in her Hartford home when she was shot dead, police say; assault rifle used in shooting recovered

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The Hartford Courant | A 56-year-old woman who police believe was just “at home, cooking and minding her business,” was killed Wednesday afternoon when gunshots from an assault rifle tore through her apartment in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood.

Sylvia Cordova was an innocent bystander whose home was simply the backdrop to a confrontation between people on the street outside stemming from a dispute in a different part of the city earlier in the day, completely unrelated to Cordova or her home, police Chief Jason Thody said Thursday.

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‘New Haven, we will heal’: Community dedicates garden memorializing gun violence victims in New Haven

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The Register Citizen | The New Haven Botanical Garden of Healing Dedicated to Victims of Gun Violence, a memorial created by mothers that lost loved ones in the city, was formally dedicated Saturday, as residents came together to mark the hundreds of lives cut short over the decades.

Before the dedication, scores of people gathered in the garden, strolling down the Magnitude Walkway, which features the names of each homicide victim since 1976 inscribed on bricks.

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