The man suspected of killing former Hillhouse High School track star Dominique Curtis was found dead Tuesday inside a home in the Hill.
A 911 caller alerted police to a house on Plymouth Street in the Hill neighborhood. Police arrived around 12:30 a.m. to find the suspect, Tyrese Worthy, on the third floor. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Worthy was 36 years old.
He had apparently shot himself, according to Assistant New Haven Police Chief Karl Jacobson.
Meriden police suspected Worthy of shooting Curtis to death on March 20 at the Meriden condominium complex where she lived. Curtis was“a standout athlete” on the Hillhouse track team, and thenat Delaware State University, where she was a member of the women’s track team, according to a tribute posted to this GoFundMe page set up to help her family, including her three children,“rebuild from this senseless tragedy.” She and her sisters were also active in the New Haven Age Group Track Club. Curtis worked as a state correctional officer.
Meriden police had obtained a warrant five days after homicide, “charging him with murder, criminal possession of firearm and three counts of risk of injury to a minor,” according to the Meriden Record-Journal.
Assistant Chief Jacobson and a Meriden police official visited Curtis’s family Tuesday to inform them of the latest development. The two departments had cooperated in the investigation.
