Just after midnight on January 16, 2018, 21-year-old Jawaun Green of Bridgeport stopped at The Snack Shop on Newfield Avenue to buy a cigar. As he exited the store, someone fired shots. Green was struck in the chest, stumbled back into the shop and collapsed. A clerk heard the shots and saw him re-enter; his brother drove him to Bridgeport Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He had turned 21 two days earlier.

Bridgeport police secured the area and opened an investigation. No motive was released and no suspects were publicly identified. Days later officers carried out a raid on The Snack Shop alleging illegal activity, but that action did not produce any announced breakthrough in the homicide investigation. Green’s death was the city’s first homicide of 2018.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Jawaun, please share what can help the investigation.