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Chief Frank Limon checked the police hotline Wednesday morning hoping for new leads on the shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside Newhallville’s Moe’s Market Tuesday afternoon. No one had called.
That prompted Limon to issue a public appeal for the public’s help.
Police said the 11-year-old boy was simply leaving the market at 5:30 p.m. when a stray bullet hit him in the arm. Limon joined officers at the scene.
The police have no new leads in the case, Limon told reporters at an unrelated press event at the police training academy Wednesday morning.
“We are asking the community to become enraged about this incident. I’m enraged about it,” Limon said.
“This case should be solved. We need to community to step up. We need information.”
Limon said the department will increase walking patrols in Dixwell and Newhallville today in part in the hopes of obtaining more information on the incident.
He also urged anyone with information to call the police hotline at 203 – 946-6306 and leave an anonymous message.
“We need the community to break their code of silence,” he said.
Finally, Limon said he’s organizing a “community assembly” in Dixwell and Newhallville to seek more public input into how to help neighbors “reconnect with the police department.” He said the event will take place within the next 10 days.