The victim was a passenger in the Honda when he was shot on Hubbell Avenue. The Honda fled, stopping on Main Street in downtown Ansonia, where one of the occupants called 911.
ANSONIA — Police are searching for a suspect who shot and killed a man on Hubbell Avenue on Tuesday.
The man, (whose name wasn’t released as of 6 p.m.), was in the passenger seat of a Honda Civic with two other people when a group — possibly three people — approached the vehicle. A person from the group shot the man in the passenger’s seat at close range. Police said the shooting happened “during an attempted drug purchase.”
“The car then took off and ended up stopping on Main Street at the corner of Kingston,” Lt. Patrick Lynch said. One of the occupants called 911 reporting the gunshot at 12:49 p.m. Tuesday.
The victim is from Stratford and is 20 years old.
Anyone with information should call Ansonia police at 203 – 735-1885 or leave an anonymous tip with the Tip411 app.
Police, including a canine unit from Seymour, could be seen searching the area of Hubbell Avenue, which is in a residential area of North Main Street.
Officers were also going door to door looking for witnesses and surveillance footage.
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An overview of the scene on Hubbell Avenue. The blue car is not connected to the scene, it was just parked there.
A cone marked the location of a bullet casing on Hubbell Avenue.
Tuesday afternoon’s shooting comes after two confirmed reports of shots fired Monday night on Prospect Street and Rockwood Avenue. Multiple shots were fired in those incidents, but no injuries were reported. Those incidents are thought to be connected to each other because they were close in both proximity and timing, Lynch said.
Police were in the process of following leads in Monday night’s shooting when the fatal shooting was reported Tuesday. As of 2:30 p.m. police said they had no reason to believe Tuesday’s shooting was connected to Monday’s gunplay.
In December, after several shootings, Ansonia city government said officials were working on installing surveillance cameras to get a better handle on crime in the city’s north end. In an email response Tuesday, Mayor David Cassetti said that process is moving forward, with the city reaching out to three potential vendors for pricing. Cassetti said the plan is to use money from the American Rescue Plan Act to pay for the security updates.
An evidence marker next to an article of clothing on Main Street.
