Police probe fatal shooting in New Haven

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH/AP) — Police are trying to figure out who shot and killed a 28-year-old man in New Haven.

Officers responding to a report of a man being shot just after 12:54 p.m. Saturday found Garry Williams in the driveway of a Dewitt Street home.

Shirren Watkins heard the gunshots. Scared for her own life she hit the floor. Once the gunfire Stopped she says she got her neighbor and ran downstairs. Watkins tried to comfort Williams as she called for help.

"He was breathing and I was like 'stay with me, stay with me please, stay with me, they coming. The ambulance coming. Stay with me stay with me,' and I was just praying saying Jesus, Jesus, have mercy on him you know."

He had been shot in the chest and was in cardiac arrest when emergency medical technicians arrived. Williams was taken to the Yale-New Haven Hospital emergency department, where physicians pronounced him dead less than an hour later.

Police say they still haven't identified a suspect.

Detectives remained on the scene well past sunset to collect evidence and interviewing people in the neighborhood.

Some family members came to the scene to start a candlelight vigil, but couldn't because it was still an active crime scene.

They ask anyone with information to call the New Haven police department.