New Haven man, 22, shot and killed in Kossuth Street homicide

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NEW HAVEN >> The Hill street where a 22-year-old city man was killed Monday night was quiet Tuesday morning.

An uncle of the victim, Kyle Edwards, standing outside the Kossuth Street home where his nephew was fatally shot in the head, called the incident a “tragedy.”

Edwards, known as “Lil Lover,” was shot in the first floor hallway of his 31 Kossuth St. home. He was later pronounced dead at Yale-New Haven Hospital, becoming the city’s fourth homicide victim of 2014, and the third to die from a gunshot wound.

Edwards was a “good kid,” according to a person who knew him. “I don’t know why they would do that to him,” he said.

The shooting was the first homicide in the Hill North precinct in more than a year. There was one non-fatal shooting there in 2013.

Police spokesman David Hartman said no suspect or vehicle descriptions were immediately available.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 203-946-6304.