Police are not saying that recent homicides in Bridgeport and New Haven are connected, but the descriptions of cars near both scenes are similar, according to a news release from New Haven police.
Police are looking for a 2008 to 2011 mint-green or yellow four-door Ford Focus sedan with a sunroof and black side view mirrors in connection with the shooting death of a store owner in Bridgeport on Saturday afternoon.
It’s similar in description to a car seen leaving a New Haven gas station where a clerk was killed last Monday night.
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Sanjay Patel, 39, was working at the Pay Rite food mart at the gas station on Forbes Avenue near the Fulton Street when he shot three times in the chest and once in the hand. Patel was taken to Yale-New Haven hospital, where he died an hour later, police said.
The perpetrators left on foot, but a surveillance image recorded around the time of the homicide shows a similar car traveling from an area near the Forbes Avenue crime scene.
Police are asking anyone who sees a car matching the description to use extreme caution when approaching because the occupants should be considered armed and dangerous.
Neither the New Haven Police Department or Bridgeport Police are considering the crimes connected, but detectives from the two departments are in contact with one another regarding their respective investigations.
No suspects have been identified in either case.
