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Police Urge Calm Amid Retaliation Fears After 2 New Haven Teens Gunned Down Days Apart Police Urge Calm Amid Retaliation Fears After 2 New Haven Teens Gunned Down Days Apart
Police Urge Calm Amid Retaliation Fears After 2 New Haven Teens Gunned Down Days Apart Two high school students in New Haven, both close friends, were fatally shot in targeted attacks just days apart, leaving a city and school community grappling with grief. Police are asking the victims' friends not to seek justice on their own and to allow authorities to find those responsible for the killings. The first victim, 16-year-old Uzziah Shell, was gunned down near Goffe Street on a Friday afternoon, Nov. 29. Daily Jackson, 17, was fatally shot 10 days later on Shelton Avenue, just blocks away. Both teens died at Yale New Haven Hospital. “The shootings of both these men do not ap…

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