On a Friday afternoon shortly before 5 p.m. on July 10, 2020, 36-year-old Ricky Newton entered the Rosette Wine and Liquor store on Rosette Street in New Haven. A verbal argument between Newton and another man, later identified as Rashad Hardy, escalated when Hardy produced a handgun. Surveillance footage captured Hardy leaving the store, turning, and firing multiple shots through the storefront door from the street. Newton was struck and collapsed inside; he was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

The New Haven Police Department used ShotSpotter alerts and the store surveillance video to identify Hardy as the suspect and began a search. Two weeks later, on July 24, 2020, Hardy was located in a group home in Princess Anne, Maryland and taken into custody by Maryland State Police during the execution of an unrelated search warrant before being returned to Connecticut to face charges in Newton’s death.

Does anyone have information about Newton’s final hours in New Haven or the events outside the store that afternoon?