The Last Time I saw my Father aka I will never forgive the Hartford Police Department 

I will never forgive the Hartford Police Department. In early 2020 my father was involved in an accident. Somehow, he ended up in Hartford. Our suspicion is that he was at Stop & Shop, one of his favorite places to go (ask anyone there – he was a regular and it was part of his daily routine) and we believe he offered to give someone in need a ride home. This is the type of person he was. 

We suspect the accident occurred on the way back from this drop off. We received voicemails from my parents’ home voicemail from the Hartford Police Department, and my brother received a voicemail the next day. 

From what we can piece together, his car was towed and he was taken to the Hartford Police Department. From there apparently, they made the most pathetic attempts to reach family. On the morning of January 31st, he was spotted on the Radison Hotel’s camera and seen near the loading dock. He was brought into the hotel, and they contacted the Hartford Police Department who then reached out to my sibling who traveled to Hartford to retrieve him. 

So, what happened overnight? Where did he stay. It was cold, it was winter, he was 88 years old. 

On a cold winter night in January, the Hartford Police Department abandoned a senior citizen, who had been in an accident and who may have sustained a concussion or other injuries. 

After my brother picked up our father he was taken to the hospital. Five days later he was gone.  

We will never know what happened. I reached out to the Hartford Police Department multiple times to no avail, attempting to obtain the video footage of the evening. No one ever got back to me. 

We contacted a lawyer to assist but we need the video footage. 

Did the Hartford Police Department have a legal duty to my father? Legally no. Did they have a moral duty to do the right thing? Absolutely. Did they bother to do more than a cursory search of the internet for the phone numbers of family members. Did they check his wallet for our names and phone numbers that were included on a laminated piece of paper? We do not know but it does not appear so. We do know that a simple internet search will yield the names of his children. We also know that it is the Hartford Police Department. It’s not as if they do not have resources, access to names, addresses, phone numbers, anything they might need; and they could not do any more than the bare minimum, which was nothing, in terms of reaching out to assist an elderly person. 

They left him on his own, an 88-year-old man who had been involved in an accident. 

How disgusting. They should be ashamed of themselves. I hope they know their lack of decency and their abandonment of moral guidance resulted in the passing of my father. For this, I will never forgive the Hartford Police Department. 

Sweet Dreams, 

Ava

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