BRIDGEPORT — City police released images of a person of interest Saturday connected to a homicide earlier this month.
The police department said the homicide squad is looking to identify the man caught on surveillance footage. Anyone who might be able to identify him is asked to contact Detective Robert Winkler at 203-581-5224.
Police are looking to speak with the person of interest about the killing of Tyron Heard, 21, who was shot to death on March 10 in the area of Hollister and Connecticut avenues.
That night, police said, as many as 20 shots were fired into a car parked. Heard was fatally wounded and a 17-year-old and 22-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Heard became the city’s seventh homicide of 2019 and the second in the month of March. The city saw three killings in February and another two in January. Arrests have been made in two of the killings so far.
About a week prior to Heard’s homicide, on March 5, 34-year-old Jerrell Gatewood was shot to death on Connecticut Avenue and Fifth Street. Gatewood was non-fatally shot in 2013 while working on his car.
On Thursday, city officials and community...
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