New Haven Independent

Earlier Tuesday, police arrested Daniel Carter, also 18, at the Home Depot in Orange, where he works. At a press conference Tuesday at police headquarters, Badger and Police Chief Cisco Ortiz said they had seen video footage the teens took of the crime, when several males pulled up to a house on Dickerman Street and opened fire at a different target, wounding two teenage girls and hitting Cole with a fatal bullet in the back.

Ortiz called the tape “very incriminating,” though he wouldn’t say whether the four arrestees could be easily identified on the video. The other two arrested are: Lamont Swint, 17, and Tremayne Sanders, 16.

In an interview last week, Swint told the Independent his cousin had been shot in Newhallville the week before. But Badger said he did not think the Dickerman Street shooting was a direct retaliation: Swint did not appear to be “out to get the shooter” in Samuel Mallory’s death.

Swint had been quoted saying, in reference to his cousin’s shooting: “It was a kid from the Tribe. It does need to be stopped.” The Tribe is based in the Dixwell neighborhood, which includes Dickerman Street.

The arrests in the shooting, this year’s 10th homicide, came thanks to “a lot of info” from the Dixwell community. “The community came forward and said, ‘Enough is enough,’” said Ortiz.

Police also seized a weapon found at Boyd’s house. Badger hasn’t ruled if it is the murder weapon yet, but the gun is “similar to the one used” in the shooting.”

The biggest question left open by the arrests is: Who pulled the trigger, or triggers? All four boys have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and aiding and abetting a murder. None has been pinned with the full-fledged murder charge. Badger said police are consulting the state’s attorney on any further charges.