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On Greenwood St. after Tuesday's homicide.
Somebody shot and killed a 15-year-old New Havener on Greenwood Street in a targeted attack Tuesday afternoon.
Police responded to Greenwood Street between Legion Avenue and Sylvan Avenue in the Hill a little before 3:30 p.m., according to city police spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart.
The police department first posted on the social media site X at 3:22 p.m. that a person in the area had been shot. At 4:18 p.m., police posted on X that this was now a homicide investigation. And at 5:10 p.m., police posted on X that the homicide victim was a 15-year-old male from New Haven.
Yellow “Do Not Cross” police tape still blocked Greenwood Street and Legion Avenue at around 5:20 p.m. as more than half a dozen police officers and detectives canvassed the scene closer to Greenwood and Sylvan.
Bruckhart said that the shooting appears to have taken place on the sidewalk. “He was targeted,” he said about the victim, whom police have not yet named as they reach out to the victim’s family.
Bruckhart said that no arrests have been made yet, and no weapon was found on scene.
Tuesday’s fatal shooting marks New Haven’s third homicide in eight days — following the shooting deaths of 49-year-old New Havener Clifford Capehart and 39-year-old Hamdenite Keron Troutman on the night of Monday, April 7, near Goffe Street and Winter Street.
The city’s most recent CompStat crime statistics report, which runs through April 6, indicates that there had been three homicides so far this year by that time. (That number is now up to six, taking into account Capehart, Troutman, and the 15-year-old who died Tuesday.) There were two homicides in New Haven by April 6 of last year.
Looking south on Greenwood from Legion.