A 26-year-old Hamdenite named Raviteja Koyyada was shot and killed in Newhallville Sunday afternoon as he was at work delivering Chinese food to a house on Shepard Street.
According to a press release sent out Monday afternoon by city police spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart, at around 3:58 p.m. Sunday, New Haven police officers responded to 911 calls reporting a person “down in the roadway” in the area of Shepard and Goodrich Streets.
Upon arriving, officers found Koyyada “unresponsive with a gunshot wound.” He was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
“Detectives determined that Koyyada was a delivery driver for a Chinese food restaurant and was shot while making a delivery to a house on Shepard Street. His car was also stolen but located a short time later parked and unoccupied nearby.”
Police ask that anyone who may have witnessed this incident or who may have information valuable to investigators to call detectives at 203 – 946-6304 or through the department’s anonymous tip-line at 866 – 888-TIPS (8477).