(Update) Police officers responding to a report of gunfire found a man lying dead in a parking lot of an apartment building at 210 Davenport Ave. at 9:17 p.m. Tuesday.
Police spokesman Officer David Hartman identified the victim as 19-year-old Maurice Richardson.
“Information given at a noon detectives’ meeting support the probability that Richardson was the intended target of the shooter(s),” Hartman wrote in a release. He asked anyone with information about the case to call detectives at 203 – 946-6304.
New Haven State Rep. Toni Walker, who works at the adult education center, referenced the homicide at a Wednesday morning City Hall press conference about the receipt of new federal money for the city’s prison reentry initiative. She said she “lost another” person she was working with in the homicide, emphasizing the importance of government-funded efforts to reach young people in trouble.