Police Wednesday afternoon released a partial surveillance video of the scene Monday night at the Pay Rite Food Mart at the Citgo gas station on Forbes Avenue, when two masked men shot dead a cashier named Sanjay Patel. Click above to watch it. (Updated at 4:33 p.m.: This is a longer version than the one originally posted today; this version shows the gunmen leaving the store.)
Police ask anyone with information about the suspects to contact detectives at (203) 946=6304.
Click here for background on the murder as well as information about the victim and his widow.
Upon watching the video, I'm immediately struck by one thing: the two "men" whom police are seeking seem rather to be boys. The way in which they carry themselves, the size of their feet/sneakers, the way their clothes hang all appear to be much more boy-like than man-like. As a parent of two younger teenage boys, I look at this video, and I see kids.
Such callous indifference towards human life as is shown in the video is unlikely to stop with just this one crime. No one is safe in New Haven until these boys are off the street.