Police have identified the 22-year-old man dead inside a car in the road on Fairview Avenue: His name was Herman Bellamy.
Police discovered Bellamy’s killing Saturday at around 10:45 p.m., according to a release from Hamden police spokesperson Sean J. Dolan.
They had responded to the scene upon receiving a report of shots fired. Bellamy, who lived in Hamden, was pronounced dead at the scene, where police recovered “multiple handguns” along with ballistic evidence, Dolan reported.
On Monday, Dolan reported in a subsequent release that a “preliminary investigation revealed that a 19-year-old New Haven man who was a passenger in Bellamy’s car had fired a handgun from inside the vehicle. Police have arrested the man on charges of criminal possession of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a permit, and illegal discharge of a firearm.
Police ask anyone with information about the incident to contact Detective Jomo Crawford at 203 – 230-4048.
My condolences to the loved ones of the deceased.
Please if you know or saw anything that may help this investigation contact the police so they can get this murderer off the streets before someone else gets killed from them or by being near them, or is killed themselves in retaliation.