A 71-year-old man is dead and police said his great-nephew stabbed him.
Police responded to the man's home on Van Block Avenue in Hartford just after 1:30 p.m. Monday and found 71-year-old Albert Byrd on the couch, bloody with a stab wound to his chest.
Byrd was pronounced dead less than an hour after being taken to the hospital.
"We were together on Thanksgiving. He was very gentle, wouldn’t hurt anybody," the victim's brother, Michael Byrd, said.
The man and his 17-year-old great-nephew both live at the home on Van Block Avenue and police said other family members were at the residence during the altercation and tried to break up the attack.
"Obviously the family and the neighborhood is a little shaken up that this would happen. As to what it’s stemming from or what caused the argument, we’re unsure," Hartford police deputy Brian Foley said about the incident.
The teen was brought into custody and is being charged with one count of murder, police said.
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He was transferred to the Hartford Juvenile Detention Facility at 920 Broad Street and will be arraigned this morning.
