Michael Judkins, a 26-year-old Black man from New Haven, was killed on August 29, 2022, when shots were fired on Thompson Street in the Newhallville neighborhood just after 1 p.m. Police found two victims; Judkins had been shot multiple times and was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital, where he died. A 20-year-old man with a non-life-threatening leg wound was treated at the same hospital. Reports say the men were inside or next to an Audi when the shooting happened.

Known to friends as Mango and Young Klean, Judkins was a Wilbur Cross High School graduate and a noted local basketball player. He was a father to a daughter, Kaylee, pursuing a music career as a rapper, and a co-creator of a clothing line called STRANDED. Investigators described the attack as targeted and group-related, with a possible dispute over jewelry such as a gold chain cited in reports. Ballistics were collected at the scene and no suspects in the murder have been publicly identified or arrested. The day after the killing, police and the DEA arrested someone in a nearby town and seized a firearm; authorities said that arrest was not of a murder suspect but was linked to people who may have planned retaliation.

Did anyone in Newhallville see or hear anything that afternoon or know more about Michael’s activities that day?