A gun trade gone wrong may have sparked the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Makhi Buckly Monday afternoon in a backyard tucked away on the edge of Hartford’s Southwest neighborhood, new court records suggest.
Three teens were arrested hours after the shooting at the home of 18-year-old Jaquan Graham — next door to where Buckly was killed — who admitted to a friend that afternoon that a man he’d met “was moving iffy” so he shot him, according to a series of Hartford police records released publicly Thursday.
Neither Graham nor 19-year-olds Omari Barrett or Tyrese Duckworth have been charged with murder, but each are being held on weapon and evidence tampering charges in connection with the investigation and the police records reveal for the first time how the incident may have unfolded Monday afternoon.