On the afternoon of Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 29-year-old Shaquille Chazz Pearson was shot and killed while walking at the intersection of East Pearl Street and Grand Avenue in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood. Witnesses and callers alerted police; officers found Pearson wounded in the street and an officer provided aid until firefighters and medics arrived. He was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital and died a short time later.

Investigators say a vehicle pulled up beside Pearson and a passenger fired multiple times. Ballistic evidence was recovered at the scene. Police determined the shots were fired from a black Volkswagen Tiguan reported stolen; the vehicle was later located abandoned and unoccupied in North Haven and towed for processing.

A 19-year-old man from New Haven was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting and held on $2 million bond. What did anyone in the Fair Haven area see or hear that afternoon?