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Suspect Arrested in Meriden Teen's Shooting

Tashawn Bromfield, 16, was shot twice in the back while visiting family in 2010 in the Bronx.

 

Police in New York City have made an arrest in the 2010 drive-by shooting of a Meriden teenager, the New York Post is reporting.

Reginald Goldman, 19, was arraigned in a New York courtroom yesterday on charges he shot Tashawn Bromfield, 16, twice in the back in August of 2010. The newspaper reports that Bromfield was visiting relatives in the Bronx when he was killed and that Goldman is accused of the shooting as part of a gang initiation.

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Bromfield’s mother, Dionne Russell, 42, was in the courtroom Thursday for Goldman’s arraignment.


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