Ronald Wayne Matheney, 37, was fatally shot the evening of January 2, 2018, after police found him and another man inside a parked car on Wadley Street in New Haven. Officers arrived about 10:45 p.m.; Matheney, seated in the driver’s seat, had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at Yale-New Haven Hospital. The passenger, Corey Bland of Hamden, was shot in the arm and survived in stable condition.

Known as Wayne or Riggs, Matheney was born and raised in New Haven, attended Eli Whitney and Hamden High Schools, and worked as a car attendant and a cook. Loved ones remembered him for his smile, his love of basketball and dirt bikes, and time spent with his daughters and family. New Haven police opened a homicide investigation, canvassed the neighborhood, and asked the public for information; no suspect description or getaway vehicle had been released.

If anyone has information about the shooting or saw activity on Wadley Street that night, please share what you know.