In the early morning hours of March 13, 2021, 33-year-old Gregory Ingram was shot and killed in his third-floor Seaview Avenue apartment in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Ingram and his girlfriend were awakened by a noise on their back porch; as he went to investigate, 20 to 30 rounds were fired from outside, tearing through the door and walls. Ingram collapsed in the front stairwell and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives say the shooting was a case of mistaken identity: the gunfire was intended for a previous tenant who had moved out. Investigators traced an older red Ford sedan seen fleeing the scene to a used car lot and to 22-year-old Eric Ayala. Ayala, described by Ingram’s mother as a close friend, was alleged to have been targeting a man who had earlier shot him and who once lived in Ingram’s apartment. Cell phone records and the vehicle inquiry were cited by police as placing Ayala connected to the crime.

In September 2021 police obtained an arrest warrant charging Eric Ayala with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, criminal possession of a firearm, and carrying a pistol without a permit; bond was set at $1 million. If anyone knew Gregory, his friends, or has information about the red Ford seen after the shooting, please come forward.