On the evening of Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 30-year-old Bridgeport resident Edwin Jeremy Gual was fatally shot in the neck and torso while walking with another person on Laurel Avenue. Emergency crews arrived around 7:30 p.m. and Gual was taken to St. Vincent’s Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Police treated the shooting as a targeted attack rather than a random act of violence.

By late December 2018 no arrests had been announced. Investigators at that time said the killing may have involved mistaken identity and the case remained one of Bridgeport’s unsolved homicides for 2018, leaving family members to cope with the loss during the holiday season. If anyone has information about Edwin’s movements that night or about people who might have targeted him, please come forward.