Police: Witnesses mum on Bridgeport homicide

BRIDGEPORT — No one would cooperate with police officers who tried to identify witnesses to the city’s 10th homicide of the year early Friday, despite there being “dozens of people present,” officials said.

Gunfire was picked up by the city’s ShotSpotter system at the P.T. Barnum apartments near Building 4 about 2 a.m., according to Capt. Brian Fitzgerald, who oversees the police department’s Detective Bureau.

A uniformed police detail in the area responded to the area of the gunshots and found a large crowd, the captain said.

Fitzgerald said officers also found 21-year-old Teon Kelly, of Bridgeport, lying on the ground “suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.” Kelly was taken by medics to Bridgeport Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

“Officers at the shooting scene attempted to identify witnesses, but no one would cooperate with officers despite the fact that it appears there were dozens of people present when the shooting occurred,” Fitzgerald said.

The shooting reportedly took place near a memorial set up in honor of 18-year-old Eugene “Stink” Stinson, who was shot and killed on June 23. Stinson was the city’s seventh homicide of the year.

Detectives processed the crime scene overnight and are in the process of collecting and reviewing video evidence, police said Friday.

The lead investigator on Kelly’s homicide investigation, Detective Jorge Cintron, can be reached at 203581-5227.

Kelly’s death not only marks the city’s 10th homicide of the year, but also the fourth in just a few weeks.

Other than Stinson, gun violence also killed 52-year-old Wayne Wollcock and 30-year-old Anthony McKinstry — the eighth and ninth homicide victims of the year in Bridgeport — and wounded at least a handful of others in the city during late June.