On the evening of September 16, 2022, gunfire on Atwater Street in New Haven left 46-year-old Kenneth Cloud of Seymour critically wounded while he sat on a porch. Multiple 911 calls came in just before 9 p.m. as the New Haven Grand Prix was happening elsewhere in the city. Emergency crews took Cloud to Yale New Haven Hospital; he was left paralyzed by the shooting and died of his injuries on December 22, 2022, a death classified as New Haven’s 13th homicide that year.

Investigators recovered 43 shell casings at the scene. The probe identified members of the Exit 8 street gang as involved and led to the arrest of 26-year-old Donell Allick Jr., known as D-Nice, on November 10, 2022. Ballistics linked two handguns to the attack: one seized in Allick’s vehicle and one recovered from his home; authorities concluded 19 shots came from the car gun and 24 from the residence weapon.

Anyone who knew Kenneth Cloud, his movements on September 16, 2022, or who has information about the shooting is urged to come forward.