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Police are investigating after a person was shot and killed on the Sherman Parkway in New Haven Wednesday. The mayor’s office confirmed the fatal shooting...

As City Sees 11th Homicide, Police, Mayor Vow To Curb Violence - New Haven, CT - Tuesday, a 44-year-old Waterbury man was gunned down near George and Orange streets. That killing was the 11th in the city in four months.

The time is now to create the CT Office of Community Gun Violence Prevention Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport, organized a news conference in mid-April following the shooting death of a three-year old in Hartford. On Friday, she convened a joint informational committee hearing to hear about gun violence intervention and prevention. On a recent Saturday in Hartford, 3-year-old Randell Jones was shot and killed while sitting in a car with his siblings. Later that afternoon, just a mile away, 16-year-old Ja’Mari Preston was shot dead. These are not isolated events. Over the 10-year period endi...

Desperate to stop epidemic of gun violence, CT lawmakers seek answers from experts Kelan Lyons, ctmirror.org FacebookTwitterEmail State Sen. Marilyn Moore speaks during a roundtable discussion addressing gun violence held at the Burroughs Community Center, in Bridgeport, Conn. Aug. 9, 2019.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media When lawmakers gathered Friday to listen to experts from hospitals and community groups about efforts to reduce gun violence in Connecticut’s cities, there were no calls to defund the police. But there were no calls, either, to give police more money. Instead, the em...

Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport, organized a news conference in mid-April following the shooting death of a 3-year old in Hartford. On Friday, she convened a joint informational committee hearing on gun violence intervention and prevention. When lawmakers gathered Friday to listen to experts from hospitals and community groups about efforts to reduce gun violence in Connecticut’s cities, there were no calls to defund the police. But there were no calls, either, to give police more money. Instead, the emphasis was on funding the organizations saving lives in cities like Hartford, Bridgeport...