Jeremy Maurice Perk Williams

Jeremy Maurice “Perk” Williams was a young Hartford native whose life was rooted in the city he called home. By the time he was 26, friends and family knew him by the familiar nickname “Perk.” Public records and contemporaneous news reports place him in Hartford at the time of his death on February 17, 2010.

Though the public record about Jeremy’s everyday life is limited in archives available online, the facts that do appear — his given name, his age, his connection to Hartford, and the community response after his loss — point to someone who mattered to people who knew him. The attention his death received from local media and later inclusion among cold-case notices underlines that his family and community sought answers and continued to remember him in the years that followed.

Jeremy’s passing left a quiet but lasting imprint on those who cared about him. In the years after February 2010, local reporting and law-enforcement outreach have kept his name in public reminders seeking information, underscoring a family’s ongoing hope for closure. Remembering Jeremy is to acknowledge a real person who belonged to a community — not merely the circumstances of his death. Though many personal details remain private in the public record, his name and his loss remain part of Hartford’s history, and the hope for answers reflects the value his family placed on his life.

If visitors to this memorial have memories, photographs, or respectful remembrances of Jeremy they wish to share with his family, contributing those recollections can keep his memory present for those who loved him.