Photo misidentifies shooting suspect

Middletown (WTNH) - A widely circulated photo is not an image of the man wanted in connection with the deadly shooting at Wesleyan University, police said Thursday.

Several local and national news organizations and web sites ran a photo of a man wearing glasses in front of a blue background, and identified the man as Stephen Morgan.

"There is a photograph that is being circulated and aired of a suspect with glasses and a blue background. This photograph was not released by this agency and is NOT our suspect," Middletown police Lt. P. Liseo wrote in an e-mail to News Channel 8 and other television stations.

Police released an accurate photo of the suspect, taken in May of 2007. It is shown on the left.

"It should be noted that Mr. Morgan was last seen with thicker facial hair than is depicted in the photo, and had shoulder length hair in the back, with sparse hair coverage on top," Lt. Liseo wrote.

The incorrect photo was that of a Cornell University sociology professor with the same name, who was once a grad student at Harvard.

Morgan is wanted for the shooting death of Johanna Justin-Jinich, who was shot multiple times and killed at the Black and Red Cafe inside Broad Street Books Wednesday afternoon.

A nationwide alert has been issued for Morgan, who went to NYU with Justin-Jinich in 2007.