Hernandez was driving.
An argument started inside the car.
Hernandez, 25, the father of a 2‑year-old boy he had just dropped off at the babysitter, was shot several times at close range.
He got out of the car, walked a short distance, collapsed, and died.
His killers took off on foot toward Church Street.
They’ve never been caught.
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The car that Isaia Hernandez was in when he was shot on Wakelee Avenue in Ansonia in March 2011.
In this episode of ‘Navel Gazing,’ the Valley Indy weekly talk show, we talk to Isaia’s aunt, Margaret Rivera.
Click play to listen.
She had reached out to The Valley Indy with the simple hope people don’t forget that the murder remains unsolved six years later — and that, possibly, someone may listen to the interview and call police and help detectives solve the crime.
The police department’s phone number is (203) 735‑1885.
In the second half of the episode, we talk to Ansonia Police Department Lt. Patrick Lynch.
Lynch, like Rivera, is hoping the public can provide another morsel of info so police can obtain an arrest warrant in the case.
Lynch also talks about the 2011 unsolved murder of Daryl Rhys Venson, a 2003 Ansonia High School graduate who was gunned down March 9, 2011 outside a minimart at the corner of Root Avenue and Hill Street in Ansonia.
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Daryl Rhys Venson was also shot and killed in Ansonia in March 2011. In this photo, a family member holds a poster during a memorial rally.
Daryl, like Isaia, was just 25 years old, and was a father to a little boy.
His family is also waiting for justice.
The two fatal shootings happened a week apart.
Please click play to listen to the interviews.
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Ansonia police in March 2011 searching Church Street for evidence connected to the killing of 25-year-old Isaia Hernandez.
