New London Man Arrested for Fatal Shooting in December

The suspect who shot and killed a 29-year-old New London man in December has been arrested for murder, police said.

Shaquan Seales, 21, is accused of murder, first-degree reckless endangerment, unlawful discharge of a firearm, carrying a pistol without a permit and first-degree robbery. 

Last December, a New London man who was fatally shot on a porch on Connecticut Avenue near Grand Street. 

Police were responding after receiving a report of several gunshots when 911 calls started coming into report a man was down in the same area.

When police arrived at the scene, they found Gilberto Olivencia, 29, on a porch on Grand Street and said he appeared to have been shot.

An ambulance took Olivencia to the hospital and he was pronounced dead.

Seales is being held on two court set bonds of $2,000,000 cash only and $50,000 cash or surety. 

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