Police searching for suspected shooter

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) -- New Haven police are searching for a suspect related to a shooting that happened Sunday night.

Officers responded to a shooting in the Farnham Court Public Housing complex on Hamilton Street at 5 p.m.

The victim, Hector Quiles, 29, of New Haven had been shot twice during a confrontation with a man he knew.

Witnesses reported Quiles was driving toward Grand Avenue, behind a man on a motorized bicycle. When the men confronted each other, Quiles was shot twice, police reported.

Neighbors tended to Quiles until police and EMTs arrived. He was taken to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he remains.

The suspected shooter was identified as Kerwin Romero, 28, of New Haven.

The shooting seems to be related to domestic issues, police reported, and are concerned that the suspect fired twice toward a children's playground.

Kerwin Romero is wanted on charged of first-degree assault, criminal possession of a pistol, carrying a pistol without a permit, risk of injury to a minor and unlawful discharge of a firearm.

Romero is described as a bald 29-year-old Hispanic man. He has a tattoo on the left side of his neck and is about 5'06'' and weighs about 160. He was last seen heading on Grand Avenue toward Wallace Street on his bicycle, police said.

He should be considered armed and dangerous.

Anyone with information on Romero's whereabouts is asked to call police at (203) 946-6316.